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To: Ilaine who wrote (30427)	5/22/2002 11:11:33 PM
From: Zeev Hed	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 281500

Cobalt, Hitler also gave them autobahns and trains running on time, so what? The Germans have created some of the greatest cultural treasures for humanity, they should have been better prepared as a "Kulturish" nation to see through the demagoguery, they failed, Europe paid the price. Actually, I was quite surprised that Israel, in 1950 (after bitter deliberations) decided to "normalize" relations with Germany. The last time, the Jewish people were so devastated by an irrational and envious foe (Spain), the Jewish leadership imposed a "Herem" (in essence a total boycott) on that nation for 500 years, and for the most of it, that Herem held, and I believe it held back that nation advance for quite some time. That Herem was finally terminated in 1992. By the way, Anna Luxemburg was a real problem for Hitler, she was both a Jew and a communist (g). many young Jews in 1933, joined the communist party in Germany as the only way available to resist fascism. Zeev

To: Ilaine who wrote (30427)	5/23/2002 3:02:22 AM
From: LTK007	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Why must people, like yourself, make near constant. excusatory analysis for why people herd to evil. What about the Heroes and Heroines that stand up against the crowd and cry out, "This is Evil!" What do they reveal about the crowd, and do they not give cause to question whether crowd action is excusable? Carl Gustav Jung is very explicit in specifying the greatest mistake of his entire life. In 1931 he gave a dissertation explaining the psychology of events like the rise of Nazism; and, he thus said it was an act trivializing what was actually occurring. By 1932 he came to recognize his blindness, his blindness being, he said, his failure to realize the reality of evil. It was from that point on that Jung took the view that evil was a real force, and not one to be excused. Max P.S. My mother said on several occassions, the failure to grasp evil is a failure to empathize, and to not have this ability to empathize reveals a deficient soul.