Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Country of origin
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 13:42:42 -0500
References: <B65131C7.52E5%aruby@rci.rutgers.edu>

And further, Horst et. al, while I agree with you entirely about your view of Hitler
and the Germans during the National Socialist period, before blithely writing off as
comparatively petty the crimes of monsters such as Stalin, Mao ad Pol Pot, I would
urge you to browse through a fascinating book called The Black Book of Communism.
You'll learn that in terms of numbers of victims, Herr Hitler was a piker - and I am
NOT in any way saying "he wasn't all that bad." What I am saying is that for various
reasons we have never quite recognized the horror perpetrated by some other regimes
on their own peoples.

B. D.

aruby@rci.rutgers.edu wrote:

> on 12/3/00 10:56 PM, A.H.SCHMIDT at horsts@primus.com.au wrote:
>
> >> Krechtz@aol.com wrote:
> >
> >> I suppose we can make room for a few neo-Nazis.
> >
> >> Joe Sobel
> >
> > People who write this, have no idea what they are talking about. They have no
> > idea what the Nazi regime was. It was the most evil ,sadistic and miserable
> > collection of people ever assembled. It made others with similar ideals look
> > like
> > stark beginners. Be it Attilla the Hun,  Stalin or Pol Pot. None of them could
> > compete with the atrocities the Nazis managed to inflict on to other people.
> > The
> > only ones who really know what nazism as practiced by Hitler's mob meant,
> > where
> > the victims. Remember, there was nothing  even slightly good about this
> > regime.
> > All the idiots who list  so called achievements like the Autobahn, the rockets
> > etc., don't want to admit, or are to stupid to realize,  that this was only
> > done
> > to create more and faster mayhem.
> > Any positive or light hearted reference to this regime shows total ignorance.
> >
> > Regards, Horst Schmidt
> >
> >
>
> Unfortuantely, Horst, you're wrong. The Nazis were just a bunch of ordinary
> Germans, ie, just like anyone else. To claim that they were anything more or
> less is to beg for it to happen again. Besides, the holocaust perpetrated by
> the Nazis was neither the most lethal nor the most terrible; history, sadly
> 20th century history in particular has amply demonstrated that fact.
>
> Aaron

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