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From: debray@sbcs.UUCP (Saumya Debray)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Pin the blame on the Germans
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Date: Thu, 23-May-85 08:37:21 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 23 08:37:21 1985
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>>  As has been mentioned before
>> very few of the bodies in that graveyard were those of Nazis.
>> ....                                                   ^^^^^^
>> Bill Gates
>> /* ---------- */
> 
>  I hope that you meant to say very few of those Bitburg buried were SS
>  (48 or so out of 2000). All German soldiers were Nazis - sworn to the
>  Nazi ideology.	   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

You should be careful about how casually you throw universal quantifiers
around.  Are you telling me that _every single man_ who served in the
Wehrmacht was a member of Hitler's National Socialist Party?  Colonel
von Stauffenberg (strangled with piano wire after the 20th. July 1944
assasination attempt against Hitler) and Field Marshal Rommel (forced by
Hitler to take poison for involvement in the same plot) too? [I'm giving
examples of senior German army officers here - we aren't even talking of
your average infantryman!]  How about reading up some history?

>>   Shouldn't their dead be mourned for just the same as ours?
> 
> Just because the people who committed the most vicious crimes against   
> humanity died, doesn't make them less guilty or somehow forgivable.

Same comment as above.
-- 
Saumya Debray
SUNY at Stony Brook

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