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From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler)
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Subject: Re: Pin the blame on the Germans
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Date: Fri, 24-May-85 07:37:21 EDT
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Only one thing wrong with DJVs response.  To be a Nazi required that
you be accepted into the party.  It was not like becomming a
Democrat or Republican or Libertarian.   You were required to
make a committment to the party before you were admitted.  The
communist party operates along the same line.  Only about 20% of
the German population Belonged to the Nazi party at ony one time.
Therefore, your statement that all Germans were Nazis is false.  You
must remember that the Nazi party was in power at the time.  It was
a party with a henious philosophy foisted on the rest of the
population by a reletively few people.  That others went along with the
philosophy is the sad part of the whole affair.  During that period,
the Democrats were in power here in the US.  That fact did not make
everyone a Democrat.  Republicans as well as Democrats died on the
front lines in that conflict.  It didn't matter that they did not
agree on a myriad of philosphical points concerning politics, they
all agreed it was a good idea to fight the common enemy.  Don't
you think there were Germans who thought the same way?
T. C. Wheeler