After a good night of sleep we didn’t see
our host again, once he left early in the morning. We were really grateful for
everything. It was the time to walk around the nice city of Linz in the
daylight. The historical part of the city is really nice. The city was founded
by the Roman Empire in AD 799, but it already existed before with
the name Lentia. It was a government city of the Holy Roman Empire
and it was already the most important city of the Empire for few years,
when Habsburg Emperor Friedrich III was living there. It was the area that
the dictator Adolf Hitler spent 9 years of his youth life. Some stories
say that he considered Linz as his hometown and during his dictatorship period
he invested a lot in the local economic, making the city industrialized just in
few years. But as you know Hitler wasn't really a good guy, just 20km from the
city there was the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp that killed around
122,766 and 320,000 Soviets and Polishes respectively.
In fact the Nazi
influence was so strong that the city started the denazification just
after 1945 and it was the first city in Austria to deal intensively with the
affected that the Nazism against to the Humanity. Just the Holocaust killed 17
million people in Europe. It was the time that almost 1% of the entire
population in the world was killed just by a nation. I'm not even talking the
over 60 million that died in the 2nd world war (3% of the world). None war
today kills this amount of people, that's why it was called as World War.
In Linz 39 streets
and 17 traffic areas were renamed and just after the war was founded there the
first Jewish Documentation Center.
In 2009 with
Vilnius, Linz was elected the European Capital of Culture and since 2014
the UNESCO made the city member of Creative Cities (UCCN) network as a City of
Media Arts.
The city just
looked great and like many cities in Germany carry sad memories about an insane
past that they had, now life is just flowing in another direction. You need to
understand the mistakes of our ancestries are never going to be our faults. The
fact that I was born in Brazil, you in Germany and a guy in Central Africa and
a girl in India, it's just about lucky.
We don't choose
where we were born and then we shouldn't carry the faults of our ancestries in
our back. We do our own story. I really hope that when you see a German the
first thing that you'll come to your mind won't be the Nazism. They just born
there by lucky and they responsible for his own actions. What's sad to see is
that some people didn't really learn with the past or never studied history in
a wide perspective and are making the same (mistake) that their ancestries
made. The Nazism is forbidding around the world, but there are still
the neo-Nazis. In Germany you can find them, but don't let this small
amount of insane guys generalize how Germans are. For the neo-Nazis I can give
to them the responsibility of 17 million men, women and kids that were murdered
in the Holocaust. If you are neo-Nazis and aren’t white or a Russian, Polish,
Ukrainian, Serbian, French, Belgium, Dutch, Greek, gypsy, Italian or if you're
LGBT, mental or physical disable, African background, Jew or if you have any
religion that's not paganism or politic position against to the Nazism (Socialist,
Capitalist, Republicans, Communist, Anarchist or whatever) being a Neo-Nazis,
fitting in any of these groups, you should just give your propriety to the
government, become labor and sexual slave, allow other to make medical
experiment and be free to be murdered in many different ways. Don't forget to invite
your friends.
In Germany, there
are still 26,000 from the extreme right wing that share similar ideas from the
Nazism period and 6,000 Neo-Nazis. Don't forget, there 80 million people living
in Germany. The Neo-Nazis are just 0,008% of the population. Germans are
actually great, most of my remarkable interactions until now was with Germans.
Somehow there is Brazilian-German connection that I can't explain, but if I
have to make a list of the top 5 people that influenced my life mostly in the
past 3 years, 3 of them would be Germans.
The negatively Nazi
influence in Linz didn't change my feeling from the City, until now my first
and best experience in Austria.
References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauthausen-Gusen_concentration_camp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_victims#
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population_estimates
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Capital_of_Culture
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-17514394
Btw, I'm not ashamed to share my Wikipedia references
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