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Subject: [Leica] German angst
From: chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com (Chris Crawford)
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:14:34 -0400

The universities are small worlds. Just because no one at Berkeley voted for
Reagan doesn't mean no one in the stae voted for him. The people you knew
probably told the truth, they probably didn't vote for Reagan, but enough
people outside the University of California did so to over-ride the college
peoples' votes.

Same with the Germans and Hitler. Enough people voted for him to put him in
power, but that doesn't mean anyone in the universities voted for him.


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On 4/2/10 1:04 PM, "Steve Barbour" <steve.barbour at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> 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
> 
> 
>> Larry Z
>> 
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