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To: michael97123 who wrote (157133)	1/27/2005 6:42:28 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I watched a mini- series on the Holocaust on PBS last night. One of the things never mentioned in these discussions is the relation of Nazi ideology to the experience of rounding up and exterminating Jews. Sure, we all know of their virulent anti- semitism. But they were not rounding up prominent Jews, for the most part. Nor were they rounding up a criminal class from the jails. They were rounding up peasants from the shtetls, or small shopkeepers from the cities; clerks, doctors, and teachers from among the more assimilated Jews of Western Europe; in other words, a bunch of ordinary people who did not embody the traits that supposedly made extermination the dictated option. Extermination was transparently vile. Only a willful determination to adhere to ideology over experience could explain it.