{"id":24361,"date":"2024-09-24T09:50:35","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T06:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=24361"},"modified":"2024-09-26T07:20:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T04:20:17","slug":"jaegala-koonduslaager-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=24361","title":{"rendered":"J\u00e4gala Koonduslaager Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-24363\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240924_094935.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4000\" height=\"1848\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240924_094935.jpg 4000w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240924_094935-300x139.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240924_094935-150x69.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240924_094935-768x355.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240924_094935-1536x710.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240924_094935-2048x946.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4000px) 100vw, 4000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-24362\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240924_095031.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3750\" height=\"2252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240924_095031.jpg 3750w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240924_095031-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240924_095031-150x90.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240924_095031-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240924_095031-1536x922.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240924_095031-2048x1230.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3750px) 100vw, 3750px\" \/><br \/>\nIn 2018, <a href=\"\/wp\/?p=3044\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">when I was last here<\/a>, this had been the recent target of right-wing arsonists, and I am glad to see it restored.<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;The killers were Nazis and their collaborators&#8220;: <em>and their collaborators<\/em> is language used at VABAMU as well, and is quite unusual in my experience. All over Poland it used to be &#8222;the Nazis&#8220; who killed Jews and Poles, until the PiS era and today in Poland it&#8217;s always &#8222;the Germans&#8220;, very rarely &#8222;Nazis&#8220;. In France and the Netherlands the criminals were the Nazis, except in historical photographs when it is almost always the French and Dutch police involved in rounding up Jews.<\/p>\n<p>I think it is common for children to imagine their adult future selves as heroes \u2013 this seems natural. The reality of how difficult, how dangerous it may be personally to avoid murderous collaboration with the state, indeed how difficult it may be to even recognize that one is collaborating, or to have the courage to recognize that one has a choice, was not something my peers were much exposed to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2018, when I was last here, this had been the recent target of right-wing arsonists, and I am glad to see it restored. &#8222;The killers were Nazis and their collaborators&#8220;: and their collaborators is language used at VABAMU as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=24361\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}