[Leica] German angst

[pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)]

Lawrence,

FWIW in the mid 70s I went to Germany to visit the home of a guy who I had 
been
working with in a summer camp the previous year. His father admitted to 
fighting
and to being in the Wehrmacht and simply said "we had no idea what was going 
on
at home".

Peter

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.
> Larry Z
> 
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