In an article published today by the weekly German magazine “Der Spiegel”, the Italians are a population easily compared to the captain Schettino of the Costa ship that sank at the Giglio Island off the coast of Tuscany two weeks ago. Der Spiegel
also added that the accident is not surprising because Italians are people to carefully avoid, a burden for Europe, and an obstacle to the development of Europe’s united currency! “In Germany things like that don’t happen”, added Der Spiegel,
because as opposite to the Italians we are a race!
Of course the reactions came in furious, angry and diplomatic. The Italian Ambassador to Germany requested the withdrawal of the magazine from web and stands, asking also for a complete apology from the magazine’s editors and proprietors.
This is the response from this side of the Atlantic;
We have always known that the Germans were a race; we have read the transcripts of Adolph Hitler. Today (January 27th), is the celebration of the Shoa, the Holocaust for Italy, and unfortunately, the Der Spiegel’s article could not have appeared in a worse possible time.
However, it’s true that as Italians we have about 30 or so dispersed and dead passengers lead by Schettino on our conscience, but the race lead by Jan Fleischer ( author of the article), have killed 6 plus millions of passengers. They were
Jews; transported via train to the extermination camps, and no one from the superior Arian German race attempted to save one. In the tragedy of the Costa ship at Giglio, Italians saved 4.200 passengers from drowning, and in 1945
Italians from every sector of society protected and saved hundreds of thousands in the midst of the then called “Racial Laws”. It was an Italian named Alessandro Potenza a commander in the Italian outfit “Bersaglieri”, also my father, who
saved 219 Jews from being taken prisoners in Bardonecchia, Asti, Torino, Novara and Casale Monferrato in the region of Piedmont. It was an Italian named Giorgio Perlasca, a stubborn convinced and active fascist, who risked his life to
protect, alone 5 thousand Jews.
Its’ true; us Italians are made this way, perhaps not very good in respecting the laws, whether they are navigation or Racial
Laws. Germans are better. We have seen them in operation in our cities during the Second World War obeying to military orders in shooting woman and children, mostly in their back. Their bravery and superiority ignited two World Wars
which destroyed Europe twice. They walk and act as showoffs, conceited and above the rest, and probably still feel that the Arian race is superior. But the reality is that they just finished repaying (even to Italy), in September 2010
the bill for the structural damages and casualties caused in the First World War The final payout was of 70 Million Euros. Tha actual bill was for 156 Million Euros. There is no easy and respectful way to shrug off a national insult. Italians could claim that 3.500 years ago while the Roman Empire was conquering most of Europe and the Asia territory, Germans were wearing metal helmets with horns attached to them. We could go further and explain that during the Renaissance the Italian artistic values of music, literature, fresco and polished dining habits were influencing and culturally advancing the European courts while Germans ate food from roasted animals crisped in outdoor spits. And we could go on and on. But it really would not matter. The old rule: two wrong don’t make it right applies here. However, we agree on one thing. Villain Schettino or captain Schettino is an Italian citizen, but does not represent Italy or the Italian people, just like the Der Spiegel does not represent Germany and its people. Schettino is allowed the course of the law process and if found guilty, he will be justly removed.
But for Germany; Auschwitz will never be removed, and Germans should never forget train track # 21 in the old Milan station. That was the place where Italians and Jews piled up in cattle cars on their last travel.
Walter Potenza
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