Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Larry: Have you ever read the book by Daniel Goldhagen called "Hitler's Willing Executioners"? I think you'd be interested. He was practically drummed out of hte American academic world because of it. But only it can explain the pathological reaction you witnessed, it seems to me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler%27s_Willing_Executioners Vince On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com>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. > Larry Z > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >