Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I've got that book, and his Berlin Diary too and I agree, he didn't think highly of them. Living there during Hitler's rise he likely saw the worst aspects of German culture and character though. I wonder if he felt that was before he lived there or if he became anti-German after seeing what the Nazis did? The city I live in (Fort Wayne, Indiana) is heavily German. 80% of the white people here are of German ancestry. Being of Spanish and Scots ancestry, I felt kind of out of place and still do. I Miss New Mexico, felt a home there. The Germans here are no different morally than anyone else though, I don't think they're bad people. A lot of people here speak German in public and at home, like us Hispanics do in Santa Fe. The Newspapers here published in German, not English, until World War I. -- Chris Crawford Fine Art Photography Fort Wayne, Indiana 260-424-0897 http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com My latest work! On 4/2/10 10:42 PM, "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: >> Sorry, Vince, but I'm a historian by academic training and there is >> NOTHING >> untrue about what I said and none of it has a thing to do with your long >> essay about Jews who miss Germany. I stated that enough people in Germany >> voted for Hitler for him to become Chancellor. That's a plain fact and you >> cannot deny it. He didn't overthrow Germany's government in an armed coup, >> like the Communists did in Russia. He was elected and then he tore up the >> constitution. After he was ELECTED. >> >> >> -- >> Chris Crawford >> Fine Art Photography > > > Which is pretty much what I read in William L. Shirer's The Rise and Fall > of the Third Reich written in 1960 and was a big far hard cover two pound > book with teeny weenie writing on nice white pages and I read every word > cover to cover and carried it around like it was a big rock I was rolling > up > hill in the late 60's. > Most that stuff they have more info on now with the Berlin wall down. > But basic German history has no modern revelations; no hanging chards. > > He said there was a misconception the Nazi's made the trains run on time. > He says the trains ran quite late. > Lived in Germany during Hitler's rise to power the whole time. > And was shockingly anti German I was expecting something more balanced and > with less of an overt personal opinion. Like a history book... Which is > what > it looks like on the outside. > > Anyway I'd call that doing my basic Nazi homework. > As he takes it from the Visigoths on up. > Doesn't like them. > I disagree. > Or I'd not be shooting with them. > > [Rabs] > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information