{"id":183253,"date":"2015-01-15T21:10:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T02:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/01\/15\/the-phrase-bad-optics-doesnt-even-begin-to-describe-this\/"},"modified":"2015-01-15T21:10:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T02:10:00","slug":"the-phrase-bad-optics-doesnt-even-begin-to-describe-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/01\/15\/the-phrase-bad-optics-doesnt-even-begin-to-describe-this\/","title":{"rendered":"The Phrase &#8220;Bad Optics&#8221; Doesn&#8217;t Even Begin to Describe This\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The German government has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/germany\/11343119\/Buchenwald-concentration-camp-immigration-plan-criticised.html\">selected former SS Barracks at the Buchenwald concentration camp to house asylum seekers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Plans to house asylum seekers in a former SS barracks at a Nazi concentration camp are causing controversy in Germany.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Local authorities in the city of Schwerte, in western Germany, want to house 21 asylum seekers in a Nazi-era barracks believed to have been used by SS guards at a local outpost of the notorious Buchenwald concentration camp.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Germany is facing an acute shortage of accommodation for asylum-seekers while their claims are assessed. A huge influx of refugees, many of them fleeing the violence in Syria and Iraq, has left official shelters overcrowded and forced local authorities to improvise alternatives.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">But the Schwerte authorities have been accused of bad taste over their decision to use a former SS barracks building to make up the shortfall.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;This is not a normal place, not just anywhere, but a place of exploitation, oppression and unbounded violence,&#8221; Christine Glauning, director of the Documentation Centre for Nazi Forced Labour, told Spiegel magazine&#8217;s website. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The German government has selected former SS Barracks at the Buchenwald concentration camp to house asylum seekers: Plans to house asylum seekers in a former SS barracks at a Nazi concentration camp are causing controversy in Germany. Local authorities in the city of Schwerte, in western Germany, want to house 21 asylum seekers in a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[984,1011,1184,982,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-history","category-refugees","category-stupid","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}