Re: memories.e18
Karl Sarnow (karl@dadoka.h.ni.schule.de)
Mon, 29 Jan 1996 16:45:04 EST
I have been off the list for some time due to busy working for my students
final examinations and some other thing. So I nearly ovelooked this message.
>Don: Read your reply and felt you were overly critical. After WW1, our
>nation lacked the foresight to look into the history books. The German
>people are the German people, continue to be war-like, believe they are
>"oberleute", or in English, a superior people. If you stop to think of
>it, the Marshall Plan was ingenius in rehabilitating Europe, but the
>help they gave the Germans was counter-productive, allowing them to
>rebuild their war machine and prepare for the next conflict. Consider and
>ask yourself, where did Hassam Hussein get the poison gas?? Who continuies
>to ferment conflict in the Middle East?? After all, you can't change the
>stripes on a Zebra, or take War-Making out of the German-Nazi psyche.
>After WWII we made two serious mistakes. Why test Atomic weapons in the
>American desert, why have the Russians test in Siberia, the French in
>the lovely Pacific Islands. There is ideal atomic testing ground in
>Berlin, Frankfort, Stuttgard, Munich, etc.
>The second, probably fatal mistake was allowing the Germans-Nazis to
>unite. The only good thing the Russians ever did was to keep the Germans-
>Nazis under their thumb.
>Alas, as one historian wrote recently "The only thing mankind ever learned
>from history is that mankind has NEVER learned from history".
>I hope my children and grandchildren are spared in the next conflict. I
>spent 46 months in WWII, most of it in combat, and I hope my family, and
>other American families, are spared this horror.
>Think it over, my friend, and learn who is your enemy.
....
>--
>MannyK/usr/local/67/aj667.Merlin
>May the rest of your life be like the best of your life before today.
>x
>m
Taking the text above and translating it into german, I found a surprising
similarity with sentences I have read in my history lessons: "Erbfeindschaft",
wasn't it just that what the NAZIS told the germans why they should attack
France?
The above sentences seem to come out of one of Goebbels speech, perfectly
translated into english, exchanging London by Berlin, Amsterdam by Munich, and
Warsaw by Stuttgart. The spirit is the same: Bomb them before they bomb us.
Hitlers words, transmitted in the radio, when he announced the beginning of
WWII where: Since 7.00, we are shooting back. Shooting back? To whoom? Did the
polish army ever attack Germany? They did not! But nobody asked for that.
"Those who do not learn from history, are condemned to repeat it". This was
the sentence introducing this project. So we should try to learn how NAZIs
where made.
Becoming a NAZI is simple: just hate. You do not have to learn a specific
language, you do not need a special uniform, you do not need to become a
member of a special nation.
Avoiding NAZISM is easy as well: do NOT hate. Believe me: it is that simple.
Karl Sarnow
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