For the second time around, some idealist students from the University of Tübingen are trying to convince people to boycott tuition fees (which have been introduced last year.) Maybe they should study a bit more and think a little before putting up a banner like the long one at the right:
(read: “The Bomb is Ticking – Tuition Fees – Students! Defend Yourselves!”)
The “sic!” about this is that it resembles this:
(read: “Germans! Defend Yourselves! Don’t Buy Jewish Goods!”- the date is April 1, 1933, the event is the “Judenboykott” which was basically the [lawful] beginning of open hostility toward Jews by the recently inaugurated Nazi party.)
What makes it even more ridiculous is the fact that the tuition boycott banner was posted on the History Department building until last week (in the picture above it is posted on castle Hohentübingen, summer 2006) . . .
Ouch.
Tags: 1933, antisemitism, April 1, boycott, deutsche, fees, history, holocaust, Judenboykott, kauft nicht bei juden, Nazi, Tübingen, tuition, Universität, university, wehrt euch
