Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. -- Chris Crawford Fine Art Photography Fort Wayne, Indiana 260-424-0897 http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com My latest work! 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information