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From: martillo@ihuxt.UUCP (Yehoyaqim Martillo)
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Subject: Re: Humanism, Christianity and Nazism
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Date: Thu, 10-May-84 00:57:30 EDT
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I do not feel technically competent to debate how useful Jew-baiting was
in getting votes in Germany.

I would prefer the debate would concentrate on the inappropriate response
of the Western democracies to the plight of European Jews.

I do know numerically Stalin saved more Jews than England, the USA and
Canada combined.

At the turn of the century, the general feeling of Jews was that if there
were to be a major persecution of Jews, it would be in France (Dreyfus)
which had a long democratic tradition and not in Wilhelmite Germany which
had no democratic tradition.  An Island Within by Ludwig Lewisohn shows
this belief.  I am not an expert but Hitler probably could not have risen
to such power had not democratic Germany supplanted monarchial Germany.

I believe that the doctors' trials occurred shortly before Stalin died and
that Mr. Hobson is referring to the Great Purge trials, but I am not a
Russian history expert.

Inappropriate response is not unique to the Jews.  The response of the
United States to the problems of Vietnamese, Malaysian Chinese, Assyrian
Christians and Baha'is has been inappropiate.  The reason usually give is
the American public would not accept the admission of so many aliens.