Carinthian consensus group: Joint commemoration of Nazi victims and the post-war victims of all totalitarian regimes. Numerous other victim commemoration events
As has been the case for many years, members of the Carinthian consensus group commemorated Ascension Day, of the Homeland Service and the Slovenian Central Association together of the millions of victims of Nazi terror and all post-war victims of totalitarian regimes. (Top right picture)
Austria's ambassador to Slovenia remembered the day before Elisabeth Ellison-Kramer, the association chairman of the German-speaking cultural associations in Slovenia, Christian Lautischer and Minister a.D.. Ingo Pasch (Top left image) in Leše / Liescha (Slovenia) that of Carinthia after the end of 2. Victims abducted and cruelly murdered during World War II.
„Enlightenment and open dealing with historical events are important as a basis for trusting dialogue and reconciliation " emphasized in this connection Mrs. Ambassador Ellison-Kramer.
Christian Lautischer added:
“We met today in Liescha / Leše, because a peaceful coexistence is important to us. This requires the often cited coming to terms with the past, the willingness to meet and to understand the other – however from all sides.”
KHD chairman commemorated at the memorial at the cemetery in Klagenfurt-Annabichl Josef Feldner for the "day of joy" of the end of the Nazi terror, of millions of people, those from racial, religious and ideological reasons were murdered by the National Socialist injustice regime as well as all innocent post-war victims, to close with the call:
“Let us expand the“ Day of Joy ”to contempt any authoritarian thought guets, let's extend the "day of joy" to the "day of reconciliation", to overcome in an exemplary manner in our Alps-Adriatic region, what has separated us for too long!
Marjan storm, Member of the Carinthian consensus group and retired chairman. of the Slovenian Central Association led i.a.. out:
“It was 76 years ago, that the tyranny of the Nazis has ended. The road to freedom is paved with millions of dead concentration camp inmates, Allied soldiers, Resistance fighters and civilian victims, but also from soldiers of the Wehrmacht, who did not all go to war voluntarily.
European integration offers the opportunity, to discuss the different narratives in dialogue and thus to come to a synthesis; which can only read: No more violence, never again war, never again fascism and totalitarianism, never again intolerance towards those who think differently, towards minorities and other peoples. "
In addition to the events in Klagenfurt-Annabichl and Liescha, the innocent victims of all totalitarian regimes were commemorated in numerous other places in the Carinthian Unterland.
Via the initiative of the KHD chairman's deputy Franz Jordan was prayed in these May days in many Catholic churches in Lower Carinthia for the victims of the war and the post-war days. These prayers also joined Pastor Erich Ickelsheim (Old Catholic Church) such as Pfarrer Ljubomir Radovanov (Orthodox Church) an.
Captions: Top left image: Commemoration of sacrifices in Slovenia from left. Minister a.D. Ingo Pasch, Ambassador Elisabeth Ellison-Kramer and Christian Lautischer.. fritz-press Top right picture: v.l. Manuel Jug, Chairman of the Central Association of Slovenian Organizations, KHD-Chairman-Deputy EU-Abg. a.D. Andreas Mölzer, Dr. Josef Feldner, Dr. Florian Rulitz, Former President of the Landtag. Rudolf Schober, Dr. Marjan Sturm and Julia Gruber (KHD youth).
