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Subject: [Leica] German angst
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 12:02:30 -0700
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On Apr 2, 2010, at 10:49 AM, Gary Todoroff wrote:

> 
> 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
> 
> Steve --
> In the sixties, I went to Antioch College, known then as the Berkeley of 
> the Midwest (Our required reading as entering freshmen in 1965 was "The 
> Berkeley Student Revolt"). I suspect those radical college communities 
> were ineligible to vote for Reagan or anyone else, since the people in 
> both places were obviously from the moon.


funny, I thought everyone else was from the moon...


Steve


> Gary Todoroff
> Antioch, BS Chemistry 1970
> 
> 
>> 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.
> 
> 
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