1939 Germany, all over again

From Eric Dondero:

Lower Saxony lies in the Northwestern region of Germany. It borders the North Sea and the Netherlands to the west. Hannover is one of the States' largest cities.

Hannover has a unique history in regards to the Jewish Holocaust. In 1938 the city was a major site of the famous Kristallnacht. A centuries old Jewish synagoge was burned to the ground. The local Jewish population were deported soon after. Most were eventually exterminated in German Death Camps, including at Auschwitz in Poland.

Hannover is the closest major city to the famous Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where hundreds of thousands of German, Dutch, Polish, and Hungarian Jews were killed by the Nazis. Among the most famous of detainees at Bergen-Belsen, a young Dutch girl named Anne Frank.

Now this breaking news...

AP/Yahoo News: Youths attack Jewish dance group in Germany

BERLIN – Arab youths threw stones at a Jewish dance group during a street festival in Hannover, injuring one dancer and forcing the group to cancel its performance, German police and dance officials said Thursday.

The teenagers also used a megaphone to shout anti-Semitic slurs during the attack Saturday, Hannover police spokesman Thorsten Schiewe said.

"I don't remember such a dramatic attack in Germany in recent times," said Michael Fuerst, the head of the Jewish community of the state of Lower Saxony.

Six suspects have been identified — five Arabic immigrants and one German — and police are looking for the other three, police said.

An official with an association of German Jews, Stephan the Central Council of Jews, was quoted:

"This latest incident shows something we have not experienced before: A growing radicalization of young Muslims, which affects not only the Jewish community but the entire German community."

There are other reports that the Muslims were shouting "Juden Raus" (Jews get out), during the assault; taunts eerily similar to those lodged by German residents at Jews during the 1939 deportation.

Meanwhile, the Association of Jewish University Students in Germany is attributing the recent rise in Anti-Semitic violence to the unrest in the Gaza strip. They describe a marked increase in death threats and slurs on Facebook and by email in the last few weeks.

Pamela Geller, liberty champion and publisher of the Ayn Rand-oriented blog Atlas Shrugs, commented on the Jewish dance group stoning:

The Muslims are finishing the work of the Mufti al-Husseini, Hitlers allym and mass slaughterer of Jews during the the holocaust. Sixty years later it's the Muslims are dragging the rest of the world with them, in their genocidal dreams of annihilating goodness, creativity, production, inventiveness, benevolence, charity, medicine, technology and all of the gifts of the Jews.

Photos are of the camp at Bergen-Belsen. (H/t Wiki for Bergen-Belsen historical facts.)