[Leica] German angst

[passaro.vince at gmail.com (Vince Passaro)]

I believe you said he had no support in the universities.  that was the
point of the Heidegger portion of my story; and the Heidegger story was not
a-typical.  The larger point was that many of the people who said they'd
never voted for Reagan were lying. Similarly, the support that Hitler had in
Germany while he was tearing up the constitution as you put it and
establishing his Reich was virtually universal. Opposition to him and the
Nazis, as noble and interesting and courageous as it might have been, was
minimal.  Many historians believe that there was significant diversity of
opinion and intention among the Germans during the Nazi period but there is
little documented evidence of it and there is much documentary evidence
supporting Daniel Goldhagen's claim that the vast majority was knowledgeable
and willing in the creation of the Nazi state and its most lethal policies.


On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 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
>
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