From: wkeim@broadpark.no   
      
   EU Parliament 16. January 2008   
      
   Boguslaw Rogalski (IND/DEM).  - (PL) Mr President, I should like to alert   
   the House to violations of human rights by German officials and courts. The   
   problem relates to Poles who were previously married to German spouses but   
   are now divorced, and who are treated as no better than paedophiles. The   
   courts invariably award custody of any children to the German parent, and   
   take it for granted that the German language and culture are superior to   
   their Polish equivalents.   
   'Early Germanisation' and 'children of German descent' were phrases used in   
   Nuremberg by criminals charged with the Germanisation of Polish children.   
   Similar phrases are used today by officials working for the Jugendamt, the   
   German Child and Youth Welfare Office, to justify German-imposed bans on   
   meetings between Poles and their children. Even if such meetings do take   
   place, speaking Polish is strictly prohibited, and it is instilled in the   
   children that everything associated with the Polish language is inferior.   
   The Jugendamt claims that the Polish language has a negative influence on   
   the children's education, but such assumptions are racist. Poland has   
   already experienced a German education system claiming to be superior to all   
   others at earlier stages of its history.   
      
   Is this what passes for respect of human rights in Germany? Such practices   
   violate one of the European Union's basic principles, namely the promotion   
   of the linguistic and cultural diversity of its citizens.   
      
   Source:   
   http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT   
   CRE+20060116+ITEM-013+DOC+XML+V0//EN   
      
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   Walter Keim   
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