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To: Noel de Leon who wrote (118915)	11/7/2003 3:30:37 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I understand. I had a fellow in Frankfurt I used to correspond with by e- mail. He was very pro- American. We used to discuss politics, American, German, and European. He and I had very similar outlooks, and he reassured me a lot about the basic soundness of German political culture, apart from some fringe elements, which plague everyone (even the French have Le Pen). I have never had a chance to travel much, although I have been around US cities to a reasonable degree. I finally went to Paris about three years ago. Although there was much to appreciate, unexpectedly I found myself brooding somewhat about collaboration and French anti- semitism (Vichy cooperated more readily with the Nazis than the Italian Fascists). On the other hand, some of the most heroic examples of the rescue and harboring of Jewish children occurred in France, among both Catholics and Protestants. I do not know how I would react if I suddenly found myself in the middle of Berlin. Although all of the family I know about left for the United States or France from Latvia at the turn of the century, the area they came from, around Riga, was the site of one of the first massacres of Jews by SS Einsatzgruppen on the Eastern Front. It is easy to imagine cousins of my grandparents caught up in all of that. Anyway, I firmly believe that Germany has done a wonderful job of embracing democracy and the rule of law, and, in fact, I supported reunification. Germany suffered for the mistakes of that generation. I am glad that it is looking to the future and the welfare of succeeding generations.......