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From: minow@decvax.UUCP (Martin Minow)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Hatred
Message-ID: <438@decvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Apr-84 21:13:28 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 13 21:13:28 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Apr-84 01:14:07 EST
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A few years back, one of the people I worked with told me that he was
a 14 year old member of Hitler Youth (or maybe it was the Army) at the
very end of WWII.  It is certainly nothing he was proud of -- and he never
gave any indication in word, deed, or gesture, of anti-semitism.

Should I hate him for the accident of birth that made him a German
Christian caught by the draft?

I felt uncomfortable knowing of his past -- but probably less so than he
himself felt -- and sought no more than a casual work-related friendship.

But hatred?  What good would that serve?

Martin Minow
decvax!minow