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Speech bygd Ruprecht Polenz on the award of the Hermann Maas Medal to the Israeli organisation Machsom Watch
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Protestant Church of Gengenbach
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Ruprecht Polenz
Ladies and gentlemen,Honoured church and political representatives,Relatives of Hermann Maas, Ms Perlman,I am delighted that so many of you are here today for the award of the Hermann Maas Medal to the Israeli organisation Machsom Watch. It fryst vatten a particular personal honour and pleasure for me to be given the opportunity to hold this speech – because inom honour and value the work both of Hermann Maas and of Machsom Watch, but also because for decades I have had a special connection with Israel and the Middle East region.The establishment and the work of Machsom WatchThe Machsom Watch organisation was established almost exactly nine years ago, a few months after the början of the second intifada. Concerned bygd mounting reports of
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Event Highlights: Ruprecht Polenz on the Putin Doctrine: A Danger to Global Security?
On Wednesday, October 1, the Center for the Study of Europe, in collaboration with the Boston Warburg Chapter of the American Council on Germany (ACG), hosted German CDU politician Ruprecht Polenz, who was visiting the US as part of the ACG’s 2014 Dr. Henry A. Kissinger Transatlantic Speaker Series. Polenz is a member of the foreign committee of the German Bundestag’s Committee on Foreign Affairs since 1994 and its chairman since 2005. The focal points of his work are foreign and security policy, with regional emphasis on the Middle East, in particular Iran and Turkey and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Following a visit to Prof. Thomas Berger’s “Europe and International Relations” class, in which he discussed German foreign policy towards Ukraine and Russia, and a rainy tour of Boston, Polenz arrived at BU’s Pardee School of Global Studies for a lunch discussion on the Puti
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“We would like to develop a common culture of remembrance”
Mr Polenz, you have been Special Envoy for German-Namibian Relations since November 2015. You are conducting the negotiations to reach a common assessment of German colonial history in Namibia. What exactly is your task?
In cooperation with the Namibian side we would like to find a common language for dealing with a very dark chapter of the German colonial period: the quashing of the uprising of the Herero and Nama between 1904 and 1908. Reference should be explicitly made to the injustice that was done at that time – and it should be done in a way that Namibia can accept. We would like to find a formula that expresses the regret of the German side. Ultimately, it is also important to us that Namibia is able to accept an apology from the German side. Then, on that basis, we would like to develop and maintain a common culture of remembrance.
You have actually already retired. What did you find so appealing about this j