BAD DAY IN DRESDEN

As thousands of neo-Nazis marched in Dresden,
Germany, on the 60th anniversary of the allied bombing raids that destroyed the city during World
War II, I was reminded of the honkey myopia that Bill Osborne
warned about earlier this month. The marchers, “waving black flags and carrying banners,” were
using today’s anniversary to claim that Germany was “a war victim,” as though the Holocaust had
never happened. It is an untenable pretense to equate the Dresden bombing with
Hiroshima and Nagasaki the way the neo-Nazi marchers do — although reasonable
people could debate the bombings — because, for starters, Holocaust denial
is too loathsome to contemplate.

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