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Stating the Obvious

April 17, 2005 ( politics )

Now, I love the BBC. It's my primary news source nowadays. But sometimes, even the best news organization in the world can stoop to stating what can only be considered very obvious:

Plagge, who died in 1957, was honoured by the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial.

It is unusual for Yad Vashem to bestow the "Righteous Among the Nations" title on a German who was part of the Nazi war machine, the memorial's chairman Avner Shalev told the BBC News website.

Really? Unusual? gee gosh willikers!

(seriously, tho, Plagge saved ~1200 Jews (mostly women and children) using his factory

Posted by griffjon at April 17, 2005 12:44 PM

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