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To: HostileTerritory
Those Jews sure do love their gold, don't they? Lovely. And false.

What's false is your scurrilous implication that my remark was anti-Semitic.

(1) Every penny that Germany has paid out in reparations is richly deserved.

(2) The reparations were paid in gold from the beginning because the Allies wisely anticipated that a highly inflationary German Central Bank might in the future choose to dilute the reparations to the point of worthlessness, just as the German government had done during the Depression that followed the previous war.

I am not certain if the Israeli government now chooses to accept payment in other currency, but anyone would have been crazy not to insist on hard money from Germany in 1948.

And yes, plenty of collaborationist governments have gotten off nearly scot-free, despite their complicity in the Nazi atrocities.

France especially is remiss in this regard.

Six millions of Europe's most productive citizens were dispossessed and murdered and the reaprations paid to date only scratch the surface of the total extent of the thievery.

61 posted on 10/29/2004 8:29:55 AM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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To: wideawake

Please accept my apology for misreading your post. For what it's worth, I almost never accuse anyone of anti-Semitism (which has a narrow and very specific definition as far as I'm concerned) and am only concerned about some negative stereotypes, but clearly I was wrong to have responded to your post even in the latter sense.

A few weeks ago, someone posted about Jewish voters in Florida going out in their mink coats and diamond jewelry even in warm weather. That was why seeing the comment about "gold" set me off, because as you said, no one deals in gold these days even if it made sense after the war.


64 posted on 10/29/2004 8:34:18 AM PDT by HostileTerritory
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