Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/25

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Subject: [Leica] Nazi Is as Nazi Does
From: rhc3vt at hotmail.com (Richard Coutant)
Date: Wed Aug 25 16:27:29 2004

Hear, hear!!  My delete button is getting worn out.

Richard


>From: "Buzz Hausner" <buzz.hausner@verizon.net>
>Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org>
>Subject: [Leica] Nazi Is as Nazi Does
>Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 17:56:35 -0400
>
>I for one grow weary of this endless fine tuning of who was and wasn't a
>Nazi.  I find it a stupid and vapid argument.  Riefenstahl, Speer, Von
>Braun, Hanfstaengl...all of them played some role, eager or not, in the
>rise of National Socialism and precious little, except for Hanfstaengl,
>in its demise.  I see no point in arguing on this list over their
>individual naiveté, commitment, regret or atonement.  Can we not give it
>a rest or take it off list?
>
>       Buzz Hausner
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: lug-bounces+buzz.hausner=verizon.net@leica-users.org
>[mailto:lug-bounces+buzz.hausner=verizon.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf
>Of Saganich, Christopher/Medical Physics
>Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 5:38 PM
>To: Leica Users Group
>Subject: RE: [Leica] Re:was Riefenstahl now Disneys famous Nazi
>
>Yes, that's correct.
>
>He probably wasn't any more or less of a Nazi then Leni, although slave
>labor from Dora concentration camp was instrumental in building the
>research facilities he administered.
>
>The point is that a guy like Von Braun, an honorary SS member, can admit
>to using slave labor and we don't seem to mind because his relationship
>to genocidal maniacs was "complicated", while Leni admits a great
>admiration for Hitler and no one can forgive her.
>
>I guess love is the more heinous crime here.
>
>
>Chris Saganich
>
>
>
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