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From: andrews@yale.ARPA (Thomas O. Andrews)
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Subject: Re: Pin the blame on the Germans
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Date: Sat, 4-May-85 12:31:21 EDT
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In article <950@pyuxd.UUCP> rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Arthur Pewtey) writes:
>> The problem with visiting Bitberg is that it HONORS the german veterens
>> of world war II. As these people were feeding my relatives into the
>> chimneys, I take personal offense at the suggestion that the german
>> people should EVER be forgiven for what they did.   [Mark Roddy]
>
>Right!  They're all to blame.  They're all evil.  Those "German people".
>What we should do is find some "final solution" to the German problem...
>
>Wait a minute.  Isn't that acting the same way for which we despised the Nazis?
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etc., etc.

     What is so difficult about forgiving the people of Germany?  Hell, most
of them are average people.  They still have prejudices, but so do we, and
we are, or we think we are, somehow a model for a free societies.

     Actually, I can't see myself forgiving the Germans simply because I'd
feel silly forgiving people for something that most of them had nothing to
do with.

     On the other hand, we clearly shouldn't forgive or forget what the Nazi's
have done.

     Some people seem to equate forgiving Germans with forgiving the Nazis.
     The difference is that the Germans doesn't need to be forgiven, and the
     Nazis never should be.

Side Note:
     As for the Reagan's gig in Bitburg, I think it should have been cancelled
because it does amount to forgiving the Nazis.

-- 
					      Thomas Andrews

17?  My dear, what worthless, superstitious nonsense!