Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 9/9/03 11:43:56 AM Pacific Daylight Time, lists@johnbrownlow.com writes: > A little humility is always in order when judging the mistakes of the > past. - --------------------------------- At some point the mistake becomes clear. Then the wishful thinking takes over. It is the wishful thinking that is the true crime. German boys wounded physically and mentally came home to tell what they had done or witnessed in Eastern Europe. By 1942 everyone in Germany knew of the Holocaust and the massive losses in Russia. Many young people at universities, such as Sophie Scholl and her friends in the White Rose movement, began to rebel and distribute handbills. The activists, like Sophie, were beheaded by the SS. They could not move the German people to depose Hitler. Goebbels fed the wishful thinking with lies about the Allies breaking up their coalition. Or that Hitler had fearsome weapons that would change the course of the war. He hinted that secret negotiations were going on in Switzerland to bring the war to an end on Hitler's terms. And so on. The conscious self-deception perpetuated the crimes until 1945 when Russian artillery fired point blank into German positions in Berlin. br - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html