At another Spanish carnival, dancers equate Jews and Nazis alongside train and Auschwitz floats

[Mosby]

A second carnival in Spain has referenced the Holocaust with Nazi and concentration camp prisoner uniform costumes. The theme was “the same.”

The Holocaust-themed display at the Feb. 23 event in Badajos occurred amid debate on the appropriateness of festive parades apparently making light of the murder of millions of Jews and Romanis by the Nazis. That was spurred by processions the same week in Belgium and in Campo de Criptana, a town about 80 miles south of Madrid.

In Badajos, which is about 200 miles southwest of Madrid, dozens of participants marched on the main street.

The earlier parades had provoked outrage and condemnations from the European Commission and Israel for similar imagery.

https://www.jta.org/2020/03/02/global/at-another-spanish-carnival-dancers-equate-jews-and-nazis-alongside-train-and-auschwitz-floats/

WTF?

[still_one]

1. WTF is right. Disgusting and obscene

[spicysista]

2. Why?

I just don't see it. What about Nazi references scream carnival? The Gemini in me is struggling to see both sides of this argument. This all seems really nasty.

[JudyM]

3. Is this becoming an edgy current thing?

[MosheFeingold]

4. There is a long history there.

The 1492 Edict of Expulsion against Spain's Jewish population was not withdrawn until 6 December 1968.

But Spain has always been bipolar on the issue of Jewish people.

For example, Franco was a nominal ally of the Axis, but also saved 40-60,000 Jewish people.