Hubert Schmitz, Lorbach (HSL) -  Die englische Wochenzeitschrift "The Redditch& Alcester Standard" veröffentlichte im Mai 2011 einen Bericht über die Studienfahrt einer Schülergruppe nach Polen und den Besuch des ehemaligen Konzentrationslagers Ausschwitz. Mit dabei war die englische Parlamentsabgeordnete Karen Lumley, die ihre Eindrücke im Zeitungsbericht zusammengefasst hatte mit der Aussage (Schlagzeile): "Nothing can ever prepare you for what you will see at Auschwitz".
Dazu schrieb Mr. Harold Nash, selber Bomberpilot und 1943 über Deutschland abgeschossen, ca  zwei Jahre in deutscher Kriegsgefangenschaft und nach Kriegsende Lehrerkollege und Freund von Dr. Martin Deutschkron und sich dem Pazifismus verschrieben, folgenden Kommentar, den die Wochenzeitschrift am 20. Mai 2011 veröffentlichte:

Harold Nash:
Member of Parliament should note there's no monopoly on hatred

A MAN I always admired was Dr Martin Deutschkron, who taught, after the war, at Redditch Abbey High School, when it was a grammar school [RCHS].

He pioneered school visits and exchanges bringing English pupils into contact with foreign pupils, mainly in Germany and France.
He introduced our pupils to the values of those countries, to the literature, the science, art, sport, and to their general culture.
He sought the good not the bad, the light not the dark, the human not the brutal, which is in us all.

I write the above after reading Karen Lumley’s description of her visit, with local schoolchildren, to Auschwitz ("Nothing can ever prepare you for what you will see at Auschwitz", The Redditch&Alcester Standard, last week).

I can understand and accept any Jewish person’s hatred of Germany, most certainly. But why should Karen Lumley jump on the bandwagon?

After all, she and I belong to the race which invented the concentration camps, in the Boer War, in South Africa.
We starved Boer women and children to death, in those camps, to bring the Boer farmers, whom we could not defeat, to their knees. English soldiers slaughtered the whole of the Boer livestock.
The whole of Europe was outraged by our atrocities. England alone knew nothing of it. Reports were blacked out.

The BBC and Channel 4 archives have the pictured evidence. Some scenes once shown on Channel 4 resembled Auschwitz. The Germans copied us.

Perhaps, too, she should consult the retired canon of Coventry Cathedral. He would tell her of the initial Allied treatment of the Germans, after the war. Four million Germans died of hunger, mainly women and children, some in Allied concentration camps, in Eastern Europe.

To heap lazily, conveniently, wrongly by implication and omission, the monopoly of evil at the door of one nation alone, is to create further strife and greater hatred.
As Dr Deutschkron used to say; "Hatred begets hatred, love brings understanding."

You see, Mrs Lumley, Dr Deutschkron was a persecuted German, Jewish gentleman, who had to flee his country.
But great man that he was, he sought understanding, conciliation, light, rather than a one sided recital of the bad.
He, more than anyone, really did not want it to happen again.

Harold Nash, Wythall

Quelle: Die englische Wochenzeitschrift "The Redditch& Alcester Standard" , 20. Mai 2011