[Leica] Not entirely OT: Holocaust Museum exhibit (DC)

[hlritter at bex.net (Howard Ritter)]

Being tourists for a few days in Washington, DC, where the slogan on the 
standard-issue vehicular license plate reads TAXATION WITHOUT 
REPRESENTATION?refreshingly nervy move on the part of a governmental 
department.

We paid a visit to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, part of the 
Smithsonian, which has a special exhibit on the propaganda program of the 
Nazis (the real ones, not the modern malcontent wannabes). Not entirely OT, 
as photographic images (static and motion-picture) played an important role 
in carrying a message and creating a deceptive illusion about Jews and other 
undesirables and "enemies of the German State". What struck me this time is 
the echoes of the same techniques being heard ever more loudly in our 
American political discourse, and oddly in both xenophobic and internecine 
disputations. 

http://www.ushmm.org/propaganda/

Well done, fascinating, and chilling?genius put to evil ends. If you're 
within a day's drive, I highly recommend spending a few hours there.

?howard