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12.16.2008 2:37pm EST
(Berlin) Berlin’s memorial to gay victims of the Nazis has been vandalized for the second time in four months.
Berlin police say a window on the outside of the memorial has been broken, probably with a stone.The window allows visitors to see inside the concrete memorial and view a video of a same-sex couple kissing
The memorial in Berlin’s Tiergarten park was inaugurated in May and suffered similar damage to the same window in August.
A protest held after that attack to denounce intolerance and homophobia drew more than 100 people including Berlin’s openly gay mayor, Klaus Wowereit.
I shouldn’t have to do anything, the font should already be normal sized as it usually is except occassionally. The tiny font-size problem used to more frequent than it is now.
Morgan Said: December 16th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Again please refrain from tiny hard to read font
Gary Said: December 16th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
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IF YOU ARE USING FIREFOX AS YOUR BROWSER, THE TOOLBAR, UNDER VIEW WILL LIST EITHER ZOOM IN OR ZOOM OUT. IN WILL INCREASE THE FONT SIZE AND ZOOM OUT WILL DECREASE THE FONT SIZE. IT IS A VALUABLE AID FOR THOSE IN NEED OF INCREASED TYPE SIZE.
Although people here seem to suspect ‘Nazi’ elements, the most likely perps are (especially being in a big city like Berlin) youths from Islamic immigrant origin who can combine the usual teenage vandalism with the homophobia of their religion & culture. Just go to Europe for a while and the people harassing you for being LGBT on public transport, on the street, etc. will be young Muslims, not Neo-Nazis.
It is possible to commemorate individual gay victims of the nazi-regime buy adopting a so called stolperstein. this is a copper plate in the sidewalk at the location where the victim lived. You can mail to: Stolpersteine@GDW-Berlin.de
For more information see:
http://www.stolpersteine.com/
Truth be told – Germany is tolerant, but not accepting. They allow 3rd class civil unions, discriminatory in both name and rights. The German civil union (Lebenspartnerschaftsgesetz) essentially creates responsibilities, but still treats the partners when it comes to the “rights” of marriage. For tax purposes, adoption, compensation law, and salary purposes, German civil partners are treated as “single”.
The Roman Catholic Churches is also permitted to fire anyone for being gay or entering a civil union and not help accountable via anti-discrimination laws.
It seems gay and lesbians are the one group persecuted by the Nazis that Germany still treats in a discriminatory way.
Kind of disgusting really.
This is really sad, especially for the second time. I worked for a German company for almost ten years and know that Germans nowadays are in the majority very tolerant people. My former company was one of the first in the USA to offer life partner benefits (Lebenspartner) . Berlin is a great city and these neo-nazi groups are a small minority (thank god). The German Govt
will have to keep a keen eye on them as nazi anything in Germany now is thankfully outlawed.
Tschuss Liebchen!
Hi Morgan I just wanted to share with you that if you go to your tool bar under (view) you should be able to find a icon for (text size) to find a font size that works for you. I use it all the time.
Again please refrain from tiny hard to read font