Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It shows the importance of voting: the majority of Germans didn't even bother to vote - they were heartily sick of the constantly changing governments in the Weimar Republic. As soon as Hitler got into power, it was too late. University professors and students (and almost anyone else with culture or intelligence) were among the first to get it in the neck. Douglas On 02.04.2010 19:16, Robert Meier wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >