These are Norwegian comedy sketches which make fun of Danish enunciation by suggesting that the language is collapsing into meaningless guttural sounds, to such an extent that even even Danes themselves cannot understand one another. It’s in English, except for the ‘Danish’
Holocaust Memorial Day
The president of the German parliament called on Germans to actively stand up to all forms of right-wing extremism, speaking on the 67th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
“It is these people who set an example and demonstrate courage,” Bundestag President Norbert Lammert said in remarks commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The Memorial Day falls on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet forces on January 27, 1945.
Norway on Friday also offered for the first time a long-delayed apology for the country’s complicity in the deportation and deaths of Jews during the Nazi occupation in World War II.
In a moving speech in the Bundestag, the prominent Polish-born German literary critic, Marcel Reich-Ranicki, reminded parliament of the systematic torture and organized mass murder of European Jews launched by Germany under Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler.
Reich-Ranicki, who is 91 and frail, grew up in a Jewish family and later survived the Nazi purge of the Warsaw ghetto.
“They had only one goal; they had only one purpose - death,” he said referring to Nazi claims at the time that they were simply resettling Jews.
The Germans set up the Warsaw ghetto in November 1940, cramming hundreds of thousands of Jews into the district under appalling conditions. Most of those who survived that fate soon found themselves confronted with another: the transportation to death camps, like Auschwitz and Treblinka. The Nazis finally burned the Warsaw ghetto to the ground in April 1943.
Prior to his appearance in the Bundestag, Reich-Ranicki told the Jüdische Allgemeine newspaper that he had mixed feeling about his speech.
“I don’t know if I can do it, if I am up to the task to talk about the fate of the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto. A day never goes by without thinking about it,” he said.
Hundreds of thousands of Jews and others were deported and put to death in Auschwitz
Poland also marked the 67th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz with a Catholic Mass for the victims at a church in Oswiecim, the town where the concentration camp was located in Nazi-occupied Poland. Some 30 survivors attended the mass.
City officials paid tribute to the victims by laying wreaths and flowers at the site of the former death camp, which now serves as a memorial and museum.
“Auschwitz is a warning against hate in the private and public sphere, against racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia,” said Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski.
“Auschwitz will remain a wound on the soul of Europe and the world,” he said.
Author: Gregg Benzow (dpa, AP, AFP)
Editor: Nancy Isenson
Source: DW
Tommy in Norway is a little butthurt over American butter jokes
The Dutch German tandem again
Carola: I think the Netherlands is a lady who wants to be a manStephy: ......admit it you are the antje girl, I have always had my suspicions
Carola: ...............
Stephy: I like your um what are they called, those shoes
Carola: ..........
Stephy: I will google it you know, ahh clogs
Carola: .............
Stephy: I bought antje butter yesterday yummy yummy yummy
Carola: orz, oh humanity
Stephy: bet the norwegians are envious
Carola: DAT IS TRUE
Stephy: LETS LAUGH AT THEM FOR A BIT
Russian Man Caught Trying To Smuggle 200 Pounds Of Butter Into Norway
In the latest installment of Norway’s completely bizarre butter shortage, a Russian man has been caught trying to sneak 90kg (almost 200lbs) of butter into the country without paying import duties, The Local reports.
It’s thought that a rise in low carb diets have caused a shortage in the country, which has strict tariffs on the import of butter from other countries.
Given that reports suggest butter had been selling eBay for $13 per 250 grams, this illicit haul would have been worth $4680.
UPDATE: Perhaps even that ridiculous estimate is too low — The Local reports that one man claims he was offered 3,000 kroner ($515) for half a kilo of “almost unused” butter.
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