Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/08/22

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Subject: Re: Riefenstahl
From: Stark <astark@suffolk.lib.ny.us>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 17:43:45 -0400 (EDT)

 Detlef: I may be wrong but I think you meant 6 millon! I say this only to
keep the record somewhat in line with what I have heard over the years. If
I am wrong on this I am sorry. What ever, this is a part of history that I
will never,never forget......      A.Stark

                      tempus vitam regit

On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Detlef Beyer wrote:

> >Riefenstahl's "Nazi" work was at an early period, before the Camps, before
> >Crystal Night, before the true nature of totalitarian rule was revealed.
> >(A warning to those of us who worry in the night about the 'there oughta be
> >a law' mentality which afflicts the US public:  that was precisely how the
> >Nazi's got started.)
> 
> Just to be precise when talking about 6 billion dead people:
> 
> Dachau, first of the concentration camps, was set up on March 22, 1933,
> near Munich.
> 
> Detlef
> 
>