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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
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Subject: Re: Responsibility for the Holocaust: Reply to Saumya Debray
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Date: Sun, 12-May-85 23:22:54 EDT
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In article <180@telesis.UUCP> cpk@telesis.UUCP (NANJIL NESAN) writes:

> It can be stated that human history has NEVER
>witnessed this kind of barbarism in its entire past history. And this
>WILL be repeated if the superpowers have their way. Their record 
>so far does not show in the least the peacenicks they proclaim
>themselves to be.

Now, just a minute.  Obviously this person has never read the Bible, just
for starters.  And how about the Punic wars?  Genocide was, if the
historical record is to believed, at least condoned in most civilizations.

Then we have this comment that "Hitler is nothing but the logical
consequence of imperialist 'civilization'".  If the author meant
"imperialist" in the usual communist sense, I would remind him of Pol Pot,
in comparison to whom Hitler was a rank amateur.  I would also remind him of
what, before Islam, was normal conduct in Afgahnistan.

What is most unfortunate about Hitler and the Holocaust as history is that
the focus upon this evil has caused people to forget how prevalent the same
acts are in the world today, and how often they appear in history.  It is no
political, economic, or religious system which is to blame; they are merely
channels, perverted to serve the evil.  It is human nature which brought
this to pass.  What should frighten people most about Nazism is that it was
brought into existence and perpetuated by ordinary, "good" people.  It could
happen again anywhere, even in Israel; even in the USA.

Charley Wingate    umcp-cs!mangoe