Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Not as distant a memory as one would like to think. We had, until the 1980's, the highest ranking Nazi quisling living in Orange County and the Port of LA. You had to see it to believe it, at how deep the support ran, and still runs. Just the other day, a member of the LA County Board of Supervisors, sponsored a monument to the victims of the Ukrainian mass starvations. If Bob Dole and Newt Gingrich hadn't put a statute of limitation in pursuing Nazis and their quislings in the early 1990's (check the congressional record for that period), I can bet a number of individuals at the event wouldn't of shown their faces. S. Dimitrov > From: "Buzz Hausner" <buzz.hausner@verizon.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 17:56:35 -0400 > To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: [Leica] Nazi Is as Nazi Does > > I for one grow weary of this endless fine tuning of who was and wasn't a > Nazi. I find it a stupid and vapid argument. Riefenstahl, Speer, Von > Braun, Hanfstaengl...all of them played some role, eager or not, in the > rise of National Socialism and precious little, except for Hanfstaengl, > in its demise. I see no point in arguing on this list over their > individual naivet?, commitment, regret or atonement. Can we not give it > a rest or take it off list? > > Buzz Hausner > > -----Original Message----- > From: lug-bounces+buzz.hausner=verizon.net@leica-users.org > [mailto:lug-bounces+buzz.hausner=verizon.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf > Of Saganich, Christopher/Medical Physics > Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 5:38 PM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: RE: [Leica] Re:was Riefenstahl now Disneys famous Nazi > > Yes, that's correct. > > He probably wasn't any more or less of a Nazi then Leni, although slave > labor from Dora concentration camp was instrumental in building the > research facilities he administered. > > The point is that a guy like Von Braun, an honorary SS member, can admit > to using slave labor and we don't seem to mind because his relationship > to genocidal maniacs was "complicated", while Leni admits a great > admiration for Hitler and no one can forgive her. > > I guess love is the more heinous crime here. > > > Chris Saganich > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information