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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!

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To: Grainne who wrote (14655)1/4/1998 10:07:00 PM
From: JF Quinnelly  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Bormann is ONE Nazi. His writings are no more the final authority on anything than anyone else's (especially mine or yours).

You ought to stick with a subject you know something about; Bormann was a major figure in the Nazi Party, and his opinions carried a lot of weight. Comparing Bormann with Hakeem might make sense, but not in the way you intend. It's mostly laughable. Here's how Britannica decribes Bormann:

"Bormann, Martin, powerful party leader in Nazi Germany, one of Adolf Hitler's closest lieutenants. An avowed and vocal pan-German in his youth, Bormann participated in right-wing German Free Corps activities after the close of World War I. Bormann was imprisoned in 1924 for participation in a political murder, and after his release he joined the National Socialists. He became head of the Nazi press in Thuringia in 1926 and from 1928 held posts in the high command of the Sturmabteilung (Storm Troopers). In 1933 he became chief of staff to the deputy fhrer, Rudolf Hess.

On May 12, 1941, Hitler appointed Bormann to fill the post of head of the party chancellery, succeeding Hess after the latter had made his quixotic flight to Scotland. Bormann thus became head of the administrative machinery of the Nazi Party, and through intrigue, party infighting, and his shrewd manipulation of Hitler's weaknesses and eccentricities, he became a shadowy but extremely powerful presence in the Third Reich. He controlled all acts of legislation and all party promotions and appointments, and he had a broad influence on domestic policy questions concerning internal security. He controlled the personal access of others to Hitler and drew up the Fhrer's schedule and appointments calendar, insulating him from the independent counsel of his subordinates. Bormann was a rigid and unbending guardian of Nazi orthodoxy; he was a major advocate of the persecution and extermination of Jews and Slavs, and he played a role in expanding the German slave labour program. He disappeared shortly after the death of Hitler, and it was presumed that he was either dead or in hiding. He was indicted Aug. 29, 1945, along with other Nazi leaders, on charges of war crimes and was found guilty and sentenced to death in absentia by the International Military Tribunal at Nrnberg on Oct. 1, 1946...."
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