The University of Oslo wants to fire a history professor – appearently for having violated its health, environment and safety (HES) code. Protesters say this has nothing to do with HES and everything to do with the Univeristy curtailing the freedom of expression of its staff. One of the protestors is Professor of Law Jan Fridthjof Bernts, who in the context of this strife has stated: “It is better to lose in a court of appeal than to be like the Jews, who themselves wrote the lists over whom were to be killed in the concentration camps“.
Morgenbladet covers the story in an editorial headed “Beware, Professor“. Yet it is not altogether clear which professor is being cautioned. Obviously it should be the one who says that Jews themselves wrote the lists of whom were to die. They did no such thing. The Nazis wrote out the lists, which included every single man, woman and child of the Jewish people. What Professor Bernts probably means to say is that in the defence of the freedom of speech, it is better to hang together and fight all the way through the courts rather than hang seperately. Yet this does not make any sense either, the European Jews did not hang seperately either. They were not persecuted as individuals, but almost wiped out as a people.
This is very strange. We have written Morgenbladet’s editor Alf van der Hagen and asked him to help us make some sense of this.
Alf van der Hagen has yet to reply.
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The Nazis wrote the lists. However, in some ghettos Jewish representatives were chosen by the Nazis and these people were forced to ensure collection of the people named on the lists. If any were missing then the representative and their families were used to fill the missing numbers. Ask the “professor” what he would do??!!!! I had no idea it was so easy to become a professor in Norway!!!!
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