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To: Dale Baker who wrote (60005)	4/19/2008 9:39:04 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542002

I didn't say devout, Dale. I merely said I'd be comfortable calling them Nazis (in their former incarnation). And I would be.

To: Dale Baker who wrote (60005)	4/19/2008 1:17:38 PM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542002

Dale, I had a wonderful client once who had been a Hitler Youth right at the end of the war. We had become friends and one day at lunch he started talking about it. He was so embarrassed by it, I worried he was about to weep....there was a long painful silence while he composed himself. At any rate, he said that the leaders of his group said that the war was an act of defense. Germany had been attacked!! All the youth seemed to accept this, but one day he mentioned it to his parents, who were farmers. He was told to not speak up and go along with anything that was said, that they thought the war would end soon. A few months before Germany surrendered, he was out in a field with his uncle, his father's brother who farmed the same tract of land. A stray bomb blew up his home killing both his parents right before his eyes. After the war, his uncle sold the land and came to American, and at the age of 18, my client joined him, leaving behind only a sister. Over the years, my client got an engineering degree. When I met him, he was on the path to wealth, having invented a device that skimmed oil off waters after oil spills. He said after a 32 year absence, he finally mustered the wherewithal to visit Germany, a country he felt had betrayed the world. At any rate, he was in his fifties when I met him and the shame he still carried was very painful to see. It made me realize that the German people were as much victims as anybody else in that war, maybe on one level more so.