Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/12
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Sorry, Henning, I, too, subscribe to the "only good Nazi is a dead Nazi"
philosophy. But then I certainly wouldn't apply the title "Nazi" to German
army draftees....Any more than I would call all those who served in the
American army during WWII "Liberal Democrats" because FDR was the American
President. ;-)
B. D.
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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Henning
Wulff
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 12:12 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Salgado to speak in Seattle Feb 16
At 10:24 PM -0600 2/11/02, Matthew Powell wrote:
> > As a preliminary issue, I find it hilarious that people went nuts about
>Leni
>> Reifenshtal because her message was inseparable from her photography,
but
>> when there is some question about what Salgado is encoding in his
>pictures,
>> his work is politically neutral and completely meritorious.
>
>One difference is that Leni was making deities out of Nazis.
>
>I, for one, still subscribe to the old "the only good Nazi is a dead Nazi."
Photographers make deities out of their subjects. It happens if their
photography is good.
My father was drafted into the German army when he was 19, and sent
to the Russian front when a medical student. He died in a car crash
in the early 60's after coming to Canada as soon as he could after
the war. I guess that makes him a good Nazi.
Let's work on tolerance and understanding instead of hate, whatever
the political, PC or social context. Drumming up additional hatred or
old hatred is despicable and beneath what all of us really feel and
long for.
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