Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Apr 2, 2010, at 10:49 AM, Gary Todoroff wrote: > > 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 > > Steve -- > In the sixties, I went to Antioch College, known then as the Berkeley of > the Midwest (Our required reading as entering freshmen in 1965 was "The > Berkeley Student Revolt"). I suspect those radical college communities > were ineligible to vote for Reagan or anyone else, since the people in > both places were obviously from the moon. funny, I thought everyone else was from the moon... Steve > Gary Todoroff > Antioch, BS Chemistry 1970 > > >> 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information