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To: Canticle_of_Deborah; Hermann the Cherusker
So, what do you think of Hermann's anti-Semitism? Do you agree with it?

I haven't read any evidence of anti-semitism. I think he is interpreting history from a non-American point of view, as he has pointed out.

91 posted on 01/21/2004 10:16:04 PM PST by St.Chuck
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To: St.Chuck
Yes,I wonder if anyone on these threads has read "The Black Book of Communism". It is good of Hermann to try to expand American minds,but I am beginning to think it is futile.

The Jewish situation in Germany mirrors the homosexual situation there during those same years. By that I mean it is not always as cut and dried as history books would make it appear,retrospectively,of course. Americans of the twentieth century are refreshingly simple,overall we have been blessed with abundance;however,life is much more complex and it might behoove us to look at other's points of view.I think that is what Hermann is trying to do.

He said some pretty amazing things yet nobody pursued the information he was offering. Instead he was accused of being an anti-semite or argued with or insulted.

For example,he said that no Western countries permitted Jews to emigrate there. Is that true? And if so ,why? Those are the kinds of questions I would have expected but either no one cares or no one even noticed. Who knows?

98 posted on 01/22/2004 12:56:53 AM PST by saradippity
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To: St.Chuck
I haven't read any evidence of anti-semitism. I think he is interpreting history from a non-American point of view, as he has pointed out.

Its an eminently American point of view, first brought to my attention by my WWII Army Air Force (Bomber) vet great-uncle, and seconded by several conversations with Joe Sobran on this historical subject.

It is not a "rah, rah, rah, Roosevelt is great" point of view.

Did anyone recently hear what ex-SecDef Robert MacNamara said of his role in planning the WWII bombing campaigns in "The Fog of War":

"We killed 90,000 Japanese civilians in one night. Women and children. Is that moral? Do we have a law against that? ... LeMay told me that he thought, if we lost this war, we would both be tried as war criminals. But we didn't lose, we won. But how is it that if you lose, it's a crime against humanity, but if you win, it's moral?"

http://esoteria.typepad.com/tuxedo/2004/01/errol_morris_ha.html

Another striking lesson for me on this topic was reading of the reaction of horror of Fr. Feeney (yes, the Fr. Feeney) in 1945 to the news that Hiroshima and Nagasaki had been nuked, especially since they were centers of Catholicism and the Jesuits in Japan. The horror he expressed is simply absent from most Americans on this topic.

109 posted on 01/22/2004 8:22:39 AM PST by Hermann the Cherusker
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