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It's pretty easily explained. Reichskristallnacht is a day of remembrance in Germany, which is not quite the same as a public holiday and obviously not 'celebrated', but observed. Many websites that list 'holidays' for different countries do put actual holidays and days of remembrance together in one of category though.
Someone in the social media marketing team probably thought 'hey let's send notifications to all of our app users on all holidays as part of our engagement strategy' and linked these push notifications to a calendar of special occasions. The calendar likely pulled this info from a database that put all special days, holidays and remembrance days, together, and nobody vetted the calendar to make sure every marked day is appropriate.
Oh sheesh, really, I know what it was, but then I'm 66 years old. A distant relative of my father's Dr.Werner Hilpert aided jewish business people and had his offices wrecked during KristallNacht, he was a member of Catholic Action, and later spent time in Buchenwald. This is almost as bad as young people taking selfies at Auschwitz. I remember when we were kids and if we didn't want to eat, momma and daddy would tell us to remember the starving Armenians. He was born in 1919 and she in 1925, so they weren't that far removed in time from the events that took place there in the 1900s. They all whine and complain because something is not PC,etc. Yet, how do we work to try to prevent things like this happening again, regardless of race or religion UNLESS we learn about it?
It's pretty easily explained. Reichskristallnacht is a day of remembrance in Germany, which is not quite the same as a public holiday and obviously not 'celebrated', but observed. Many websites that list 'holidays' for different countries do put actual holidays and days of remembrance together in one of category though.
Someone in the social media marketing team probably thought 'hey let's send notifications to all of our app users on all holidays as part of our engagement strategy' and linked these push notifications to a calendar of special occasions. The calendar likely pulled this info from a database that put all special days, holidays and remembrance days, together, and nobody vetted the calendar to make sure every marked day is appropriate.
One would hope that the process is set up so that a human/team is in charge of approving each actual notification before it goes live.
In this case, perhaps someone did. If not, perhaps they will now.
One would hope that the process is set up so that a human/team is in charge of approving each actual notification before it goes live.
In this case, perhaps someone did. If not, perhaps they will now.
It wouldn't surprise me if someone was just told to make sure the list is OK, but that person may not have been especially thorough/detail-oriented. Unfortunately that's more common than one thinks...
My guess is that translates to a younger employee tasked with social media duties, who has no idea what transpired on Kristallnacht, but just saw it pop-up on the calendar and figured it was another local holiday
^^^This. Young and quite possibly foreign...especially if it was some sort of automated database feed.
My guess is that translates to a younger employee tasked with social media duties, who has no idea what transpired on Kristallnacht, but just saw it pop-up on the calendar and figured it was another local holiday
I wondered that too but it worries me that he wouldn't think to look further into the day, with Germany's horrific Nazi period.
Pogrom means "an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, in particular that of Jewish people in Russia or eastern Europe."
How does anybody make a mistake like that?! That's insane.
And you wonder why Europe is slipping back into accepting "Government Uber Alles" once again, less than a hundred years after their own government tried to impose it on the rest of the world by force (and almost succeeded).
It's not because today's people have forgotten it. It's because they never learned it in the first place.
Their ancestors are rolling over in their graves. And from not many generations ago.
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