Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>>It was the great misfortune of the Jewish people that they counted among their number both prominent bankers and prominent revolutionary intellectuals<<. Johnny, I would take issue with the literal meaning of the above. The Jewish people's "great misfortune" was that a madman was able to convince great numbers of ordinary people to help and/or tolerate his hate-inspired genocidal impulses. What you have quoted above was hardly more than a transparent excuse. One does not deal with prominent bankers or revolutionary intellectuals by torturing and slaughtering 6 million innocent, non-combatant men, women, and little children. I don't for one second believe you meant your above statement maliciously, but for the historically naive, it is so easy inadvertently to seem to sanitize something which is just plain inherently filthy and always will be. With respect............Julian