Ilya Ehrenburg is a controversial war agitator of the Soviet Union. In Rostock, a street named after him, to be renamed after view of the Junge Union. The result is a parallel to the bygone renaming initiative of the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University, Greifswald, also caught the historic war agitation of the eponym offense.
General calls against killing German are secured, it is virtually impossible to prove, however, Ehrenburg to have specifically called on the rape of women, which is often held against him, have survived backed calls to make of the "Women of the butchers' distance. However, publications have been handed down, in which he made vulgar psychological considerations to the effect that the German soldiers had been incited by their Ehrenburg Verbalinvektiven occupied with a lot of women to ever-new atrocities and plunder.
The controversy raises the question as to whether war propagandists have überhaupft influence on the behavior of soldiers. Opponents of the renaming make as usual with such Disputes on the positive merits of its namesake attention, as here, such as Ehrenburg's efforts to document the Holocaust and the dissemination of customer complain about it, but also text forgeries of the then German war propaganda and translation defects.
Most of the writings Ehrenburg has not yet been translated into German. Street signs may therefore also as an indication of gaps in research and as an incentive to deal with an issue to be valuable, even if the patron is a questionable character. You have to hope it, of course, that the mad war cry that comes from the historical struggles still with us, not idiots serves as a guide to action for today.
In the following film clip to see Ehrenburg as a guest on a show-war crimes trial:
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