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Subject: [Leica] German angst
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 10:17:38 -0700
References: <C7DB9E3A.2EFC0%chris@chriscrawfordphoto.com>

On Apr 2, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Chris Crawford wrote:

> The universities are small worlds. Just because no one at Berkeley voted 
> for
> Reagan doesn't mean no one in the stae voted for him. The people you knew
> probably told the truth, they probably didn't vote for Reagan, but enough
> people outside the University of California did so to over-ride the college
> peoples' votes.
> 
> Same with the Germans and Hitler. Enough people voted for him to put him in
> power, but that doesn't mean anyone in the universities voted for him.

all sort of obvious, isn't it Chris?


Steve



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> On 4/2/10 1:04 PM, "Steve Barbour" <steve.barbour at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Apr 2, 2010, at 9:58 AM, 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.
>> 
>> 
>> funny how that works...
>> 
>> in the sixties I worked at University  California  Berkeley...never met 
>> anyone
>> who voted for Reagan to be Governor  of California..
>> 
>> in spite of that he won convincingly,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Steve
>> 
>> 
>>> Larry Z
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