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Subject: [Leica] German angst
From: chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com (Chris Crawford)
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:50:49 -0400

And look at our country, the USA, where only about 30% vote, and politicians
prefer it that way.


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On 4/2/10 1:31 PM, "Douglas Sharp" <douglas.sharp at gmx.de> wrote:

> 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
>>>>> 
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