Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/08/22

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Subject: Re: Riefenstahl
From: Detlef Beyer <d.beyer@hermes.de>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 16:50:54 +0200

>Riefenstahl's "Nazi" work was at an early period, before the Camps, before
>Crystal Night, before the true nature of totalitarian rule was revealed.
>(A warning to those of us who worry in the night about the 'there oughta be
>a law' mentality which afflicts the US public:  that was precisely how the
>Nazi's got started.)

Just to be precise when talking about 6 billion dead people:

Dachau, first of the concentration camps, was set up on March 22, 1933,
near Munich.

Detlef