Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hitler got less than 44% of the vote in 1933, On Apr 2, 2010, at 12:13 PM, Chris Crawford wrote: > The universities are small worlds. Just because no one at Berkeley > voted for > Reagan doesn't mean no one in the stae voted for him. The people > you knew > probably told the truth, they probably didn't vote for Reagan, but > enough > people outside the University of California did so to over-ride the > college > peoples' votes. > > Same with the Germans and Hitler. Enough people voted for him to > put him in > power, but that doesn't mean anyone in the universities voted for him. > > > -- > Chris Crawford > Fine Art Photography > Fort Wayne, Indiana > 260-424-0897 > > http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio > > http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com My latest work! > > > > On 4/2/10 1:04 PM, "Steve Barbour" <steve.barbour at gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> On Apr 2, 2010, at 9:58 AM, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote: >> >>> I will be 80 this summer. In my 50s I taught graduate courses in >>> a German >>> University. But I never found anyone my own age or older who was >>> a member of >>> the Nazi party or was sympathetic to Hitler's aims. Most of my >>> students, in >>> their 20s, were totally unaware of the inhuman behavior of the >>> Nazis toward >>> Jews and other minorities. Of those older people who served in >>> the military, >>> many said that they did so under protest and claim never to have >>> fired a >>> shot in anger. As for the concentration camps, most denied >>> knowing of their >>> existence. This was denial at an almost psychopathic level. >>> Hitler must have >>> governed a country full of phantoms. Obviously there were no >>> people in >>> Germany. >> >> >> funny how that works... >> >> in the sixties I worked at University California >> Berkeley...never met anyone >> who voted for Reagan to be Governor of California.. >> >> in spite of that he won convincingly, >> >> >> >> Steve >> >> >>> Larry Z >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information