5 Feet of Fury

Maybe Doug Christie was a ‘saint’ after all

That’s what the priest at his funeral mass called him, and while that might not be the most accurate word, can you imagine spending decades of your life surrounded by these dueling dingbats?

The main witness against Malcolm Ross was David Attis’s daughter. She had not attended the school where Mr. Ross taught nor had ever seen him. Still, she claimed that anti-Jewish taunts directed at her by several students should be laid at his feet. One boy called her names after she wrestled him to the ground and stuck two fingers into his eye with the goal of ripping out his eye…

Another co-organizer of the memorial, Christian Klein, Director of the Historical Society of Mecklenburg and Upper Canada, said: “I am a spokesman for the German survivors of World War II. My group was expelled from Silesia. History has been falsified or only partially told. There has been practically nothing told of the forced expulsion of 16-million Germans or the bombing of German civilians or the German holocaust by bombing.”

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“Practically nothing” must mean something different in German.

Frankly, Germany got off easy.