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To: Elsewhere who wrote (36726)	8/9/2002 7:09:43 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The "relativization" of the Third Reich? I don't understand the word. Do they mean "contextualize"? Put the events into context? Not just David Irving types? Holocaust deniers? People like Spytrdr, who want to argue that the world would have been a better place if Germany had won the war? I understand very well how Germans may have a hard time dealing with this history, and want to get on with their lives, maybe sweep it under the rug like everyone does with the inconvenient bits (massacres, lynchings, slavery, witchburning, Inquisitions, genocide.) Gellately's latest book, Backing Hitler, lays to rest any argument that the German people "did not know." Maybe they did not know all the details but they knew enough. The new generation should not be blamed for what the old generation did. But neither should they deny it.