Re: [WW] Germans attitudes after the war..

["nvdoyle" <nvdoyle@home.com>]

What???

I'm sorry, gosh, couldn't we ascribe that feeling of shame to, well, maybe -
shame? Instead of writing their humanity off as some 'Nazi trick'? And I
don't think that 'shame' kept many from the gallows or prison. And while
I've got to admit that there were a whole lot of people complacent in the
treatment of 'undesireables', the German -people- are not guilty as
a -whole-. Could we please start making that distinction?

Noah

----- Original Message -----
From: "s" <neko@evolove.net>
To: <weirdwars@gamerz.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 12:02 AM
Subject: [WW] Germans attitudes after the war..


> At 13:59 7/06/01, you wrote:
> >Nevertheless the people who learned most out of it ARE the Germans - and
their
> >attitude is everything
>
> I seem to recall a statement from somewhere saying that one of the
greatest
> tricks the Nazi's pulled after the war was to instill a feeling of
national
> shame about the war crimes and so forth. This was done deliberately to
> elude persecution after the war for their horrendous crimes against
> humanity. The German people rarely wanted to talk or drag out these cases
> into the public eye due to this feeling of shame.
>
> But I can't remember where I read this (maybe the Odessa file?) so I can't
> confirm that. And I have very little historical knowledge.
>
> neko
>
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