Yup, a lot of that going around. It was a naive view in 1933, that "we"
were better than that--and I wouldn't preen too much about the superior
virtue of the UK. Such naivete post-1933 is more difficult.
Mark
At 05:24 PM 1/24/2005, you wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mark Weiss" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 9:54 PM
>Subject: Re: Who tells the story?
>
>
>>The reasons are not hard to find. What shocked people about the final
>>solution was that it was politically irrational--the victims were for the
>>most part, among German Jews, gypsies, etc., innocent of any ant-German
>>sentiment, among the Jews of occupied countries no more ant-german than
>>anyone else (the Armenian genocide was at least as politically motivated
>>as
>>it was ethnically), and that it happened in one of "our" countries, not
>>those strange backward almost subhuman asiatic despotisms, where "we"
>>could
>>have expected such things to happen. Russia and Turkey didn't betray the
>>Enlightenment and our expectations of ourselves.
>>
>>Mark
>The US seems to be currently betraying the Enlightenment.
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