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From: jho@ihuxn.UUCP (Yosi Hoshen)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: test for Jewishness
Message-ID: <773@ihuxn.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Jul-84 18:22:36 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 18 18:22:36 1984
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Harlan B. Braude = }
}Yosi Hoshen stated the following with regard to the Nazis having placed
}different types of Jewish people into the gas chambers:
> ...It would not make any difference if we did not know of our Jewish
> background, whether we were atheists or orthodox, our fate would be
> sealed.  A very unpleasant and unjust situation, but a fact of life.

}The last statement of the excerpt bothers me. Would the situation have been
}any less unjust were the Nazis to have allowed  the differentiation between
}the different beliefs held among different Jews?

I don't understand your point?  I  think that it is quite clear from the
context of my article that the Nazis were the ones who were not
differentiating when they placed Jews in the gas chambers.  I tried 
to illustrate the fact that Jews were exterminated by the Nazis because
they were Jews, and not because they adhered to a specific belief system.
-- 

Yosi Hoshen
Bell Laboratories
Naperville, Illinois
(312)-979-7321
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