Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Sorry, Vince, but I'm a historian by academic training and there is NOTHING > untrue about what I said and none of it has a thing to do with your long > essay about Jews who miss Germany. I stated that enough people in Germany > voted for Hitler for him to become Chancellor. That's a plain fact and you > cannot deny it. He didn't overthrow Germany's government in an armed coup, > like the Communists did in Russia. He was elected and then he tore up the > constitution. After he was ELECTED. > > > -- > Chris Crawford > Fine Art Photography Which is pretty much what I read in William L. Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich written in 1960 and was a big far hard cover two pound book with teeny weenie writing on nice white pages and I read every word cover to cover and carried it around like it was a big rock I was rolling up hill in the late 60's. Most that stuff they have more info on now with the Berlin wall down. But basic German history has no modern revelations; no hanging chards. He said there was a misconception the Nazi's made the trains run on time. He says the trains ran quite late. Lived in Germany during Hitler's rise to power the whole time. And was shockingly anti German I was expecting something more balanced and with less of an overt personal opinion. Like a history book... Which is what it looks like on the outside. Anyway I'd call that doing my basic Nazi homework. As he takes it from the Visigoths on up. Doesn't like them. I disagree. Or I'd not be shooting with them. [Rabs] Mark William Rabiner