Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]actually I agree, Oliver, and I expressed myself badly. I meant to say 'people like any other' rather than 'a people like any other' because you are right that they had a very particular cultural environment. But my point still stands... had BD or I been born into that culture with that mindset, I still say that we do not really know at his distance how we would have sided. On Tuesday, September 9, 2003, at 06:48 PM, Oliver Bryk wrote: > Johnny wrote: > "Unless you believe that Germans were seized by a mass psychosis > between > 1933 and at least 1939 and probably beyond, you have to assume that > they > were a people much like any other and therefore that in the same > circumstances other human beings would have acted very similarly." > With all due respect I think that this a flawed assumption. The > Germans were > accustomed for generation after generation to follow leaders. They > grew up > in a completely different political environment than the one we are > fortunate to take for granted in America. It is indeed a challenge to > think > oneself into the German mindset that prevailed until - my guess - the > 1970s. > Oliver > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > - -- John Brownlow pictures: http://www.pinkheadedbug.com warblog: http://www.unintended-consequences.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html