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If you get invited to a wedding like this, probably best not to attend
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Fernando and Josefina chose April 29 for their wedding in Tlaxcala, in central Mexico, the same date Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun got hitched.
She wore a white dress. He wore an SS uniform. The local press covered the ceremony in detail. The wedding carriage, an old Volkswagen, featured a swastika on the hood and a black cross on the driver’s door – the crest used by Hitler’s Luftwaffe and other divisions of the German military during World War II. The images show some guests wearing Mexican boots and hats, and others dressed up as soldiers.
The bride and groom struck poses that mirrored infamous photos taken of their “idols,” which went viral on Internet.
The media portrayed the Nazi wedding as a surreal event, with the groom claiming that Hitler was “loved by his people,” that National Socialism has “helped” him and that he has suffered since he was a child for his “ideals,” all statements that have angered the Jewish community and international organizations set up to preserve the memory of the Holocaust.
“Our institution strongly condemns the distortion and trivialization of the memory of six million of our Jewish brothers and sisters murdered in the Holocaust, and the contempt on the part of those who deny or distort history, as well as all those who participated in this despicable act of disrespect,” said Ariel Gelblung, director of the Latin American wing of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish human rights organization. The institution has urged the Mexican authorities to condemn the wedding for promoting hatred and racism.
Meanwhile, Tribuna Israelita, which represents the Jewish community in Mexico, has added its voice to the reproof against “any act that glorifies Nazism, an ideology responsible for the murder of millions of people, including six million Jews, such as unfortunately happened during a wedding in Tlaxcala.”...........
The controversial couple had no problem staging their Nazi-themed wedding in a parish in Tlaxcala or in a civil court a couple of years ago, when Josefina’s dress was emblazoned with a swastika. And Fernando saw no need to conceal that he worked for the government as a civil servant, although no further details were published.
The couple have two children: Reinhard, in tribute to SS General Reinhard Heydrich, and Hanna Gertrud, named after Nazi pilot Hanna Reitsch and Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, president of the National Socialist Women’s League. “I know that Hitler is synonymous with genocide for many people, a symbol of racism and violence, but people judge without having all the information or else they just believe the story told by the winners,” the groom stated in a report published in the newspaper Milenio............
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Fernando and Josefina chose April 29 for their wedding in Tlaxcala, in central Mexico, the same date Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun got hitched.
She wore a white dress. He wore an SS uniform. The local press covered the ceremony in detail. The wedding carriage, an old Volkswagen, featured a swastika on the hood and a black cross on the driver’s door – the crest used by Hitler’s Luftwaffe and other divisions of the German military during World War II. The images show some guests wearing Mexican boots and hats, and others dressed up as soldiers.
The bride and groom struck poses that mirrored infamous photos taken of their “idols,” which went viral on Internet.
The media portrayed the Nazi wedding as a surreal event, with the groom claiming that Hitler was “loved by his people,” that National Socialism has “helped” him and that he has suffered since he was a child for his “ideals,” all statements that have angered the Jewish community and international organizations set up to preserve the memory of the Holocaust.
“Our institution strongly condemns the distortion and trivialization of the memory of six million of our Jewish brothers and sisters murdered in the Holocaust, and the contempt on the part of those who deny or distort history, as well as all those who participated in this despicable act of disrespect,” said Ariel Gelblung, director of the Latin American wing of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish human rights organization. The institution has urged the Mexican authorities to condemn the wedding for promoting hatred and racism.
Meanwhile, Tribuna Israelita, which represents the Jewish community in Mexico, has added its voice to the reproof against “any act that glorifies Nazism, an ideology responsible for the murder of millions of people, including six million Jews, such as unfortunately happened during a wedding in Tlaxcala.”...........
The controversial couple had no problem staging their Nazi-themed wedding in a parish in Tlaxcala or in a civil court a couple of years ago, when Josefina’s dress was emblazoned with a swastika. And Fernando saw no need to conceal that he worked for the government as a civil servant, although no further details were published.
The couple have two children: Reinhard, in tribute to SS General Reinhard Heydrich, and Hanna Gertrud, named after Nazi pilot Hanna Reitsch and Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, president of the National Socialist Women’s League. “I know that Hitler is synonymous with genocide for many people, a symbol of racism and violence, but people judge without having all the information or else they just believe the story told by the winners,” the groom stated in a report published in the newspaper Milenio............
