[Leica] German angst

[steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)]

On Apr 2, 2010, at 9:58 AM, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote:

> I will be 80 this summer. In my 50s I taught graduate courses in a German
> University. But I never found anyone my own age or older who was a member 
> of
> the Nazi party or was sympathetic to Hitler's aims. Most of my students, in
> their 20s, were totally unaware of the inhuman behavior of the Nazis toward
> Jews and other minorities. Of those older people who served in the 
> military,
> many said that they did so under protest and claim never to have fired a
> shot in anger. As for the concentration camps, most denied knowing of their
> existence. This was denial at an almost psychopathic level. Hitler must 
> have
> governed a country full of phantoms. Obviously there were no people in
> Germany.


funny how that works...

in the sixties I worked at University  California  Berkeley...never met 
anyone who voted for Reagan to be Governor  of California..

in spite of that he won convincingly,



Steve


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