Re: [Leica] Homicide and photography

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

DITTO - and I am about as non practicing, non everything as a Jew can
get. I will only add in response to the original post that German has a
rich and virulent history of anti-Semitism going back to at least the
middle ages. Hitler only tapped into what was there waiting to be tapped
into.

B. D.

Buzz Hausner wrote:

> As a Jew, I find this post utterly appalling.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stanislaw Stawowy [mailto:stanislaw_stawowy@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 1:09 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: [Leica] Homicide and photography
>
> Friends!
>
> Being somewhat severely ill, I was able only to watch
> your discussions
> in past days; now I want to say some - maybe just to
> not forget how to type :-)
>
> There is no genetic addiction to killing as someone
> tried to state.
> People in Germany were simply poor - after crisis
> which touched
> many of them They were trying to find someone they
> could point on
> and say: Twas because of him! We are poor because of
> them!
> It was somewhat a coincidence they choosed Jews.
> Now I see xenofoby ewerywhere where people are poor -
> they are looking for someone to be called guilty.
> Usually
> a well defined ethnic group. Look at the face of this
> German soldier from Auschwitz-Birkenau - this was a
> German
> worker - this could be a American farmer. No
> difference.
> War was something incredibily ill, not because there
> were
> bad guys to shoot up and good guys who had to win, but
> because there were bad guys at both sides of
> barricade.
> The biggest one-time murder was bombing the Leipizg,
> not even the Hiroshima. There was no need to do it, so
> why?
> Because people wanted blood.
> This is the most terrifying thing to me - typical
> people from the
> streets are changing into demonic monsters. At every
> side.
> Want more examples? Killing all Polish officers in
> Katyn
> by Russians and throwing their bodies into mass
> graves,
> burning out Wietnamese homes by Americans, even
> first concentration camps, invented, as you probably
> know,
> by British soldiers.
> This is a real reason to be frightened - typical,
> simple people,
> living in some pretty little village are becoming
> inhuman
> killers. Why? How can this happen?
> There is no aggression common to one race, like there
> is
> no racially coded ability. We are all alike, differ
> only in
> our lives and education, which makes us like we are.
> Look at Robert Capa photos; he wanted to show this.
> To teach something. And I fear he didn't.
>
>                                 St
>
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