Retention of Jewish-named streets in Goerlitz, Silesia, is defended today by the Oberlausitzer Tagespost of that province on the grounds that they keep the memory of the ghetto alive.
In support of its stand that the streets, “Judenring” and “Judengasse,” serve a historical and educational purpose, the paper quotes Fuehrer Hitler’s statement:
“I’d be sorry if no more Jews were to remain in Germany, for then our younger generation would have no opportunity to learn through personal experience the Jewish danger for the German nation.”
The paper states that the same sentiment can be applied to street names, which are reminders of the fact that the Jewish problem was solved in the Middle Ages by shutting Jews up in ghettos and that even this proved “insufficient to check the harmful activities of Jews.”
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