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To: aladin who wrote (162110)	3/27/2006 3:53:47 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 793897

<Today we differentiate Germans and Nazi's, > That's letting them off the hook. I've noticed over the years the increasing tendency to write of "Nazis" as being some special division of Germans, whereas in fact, most Germans seem to have been pretty much acolytes of the Third Reich. I expect the proportion was similar to how many Americans were in favour of invading Iraq and Afghanistan in late 2001. It's a way of white-washing what was to be a matter of "Never forget", "Never again". The horrors are neatly packaged up and allocated to a small bunch of Nazi rulers and some associated crimes-against-humanity types, letting the rest off the hook. Which of course leaves the way open for more of the same, of which we have seen plenty around the world, though not in the fine details. I won't be surprised to see Germans "come again" and they won't be Nazis. Once, again, as in 1870, 1915 they'll just be Germans, doing what they do. Maybe it will be in relation to Moslems? There are a LOT of unemployed young Germans and I guess a lot of frustration. They won't take kindly to Islamic Jihad bouncing around the neighbourhood. It wouldn't be too bright of German Moslems to riot like the French Moslems. Moslems are much like Germans. Not all are horrific, but there are more than enough to make a quorum at the Nazi rallies when the ideological juices are flowing. And, in passing, I'd note more than a little teutonic nature in the USA. Mqurice