Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 09:20:30 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Confederate flags
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

> leeandalexis at hotmail.com 04/02/02 08:25PM >>>
>
>>It is interesting to compare the American policy on Confederate flags
>>with the German policy on Nazi flags.  In the U.S., public and private
>>displays of Confederate flags are almost always unconditionally legal.
>>Controversy in the U.S. mainly surrounds official government-sanctioned
>>use of the flag.  But in Germany, display of a Nazi flag is punishable =
by
>>a heavy fine, and the police respond promptly to any report of a Nazi
>>flag on display.
>
>Ron Kean
>
>Please recall, Ron, that Germany does not regard freedom in the same =
way
>America does.
>

The German policy on the display of the Nazi flag is undoubtedly a result =
of the Allies post-war management of the country.

mjw