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From: greg@olivee.UUCP (Greg Paley)
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Subject: Re: Re: PBS Frontline, May 7th, The Nazi death camps
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Date: Thu, 23-May-85 19:33:40 EDT
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> Modern day Germany should be commended for keeping Dachau
> reasonably intact as a museum which depicts man's awful inhumanity to man.
> Lest none of us forget the atrocities, Dachau as well as the remains
> of many other concentration camps exist today.  No cover up is apparent
> as I think that the Germany of today does not want anyone to forget this
> tragedy.  

I'd like to think so, but I'm not so sure.  Did you get a chance to
get much into conversation with the locals (residents of Munich and
its suburbs, particularly families who've been there some time) about
the preservation of Dachau?  I did when I lived there for a year and
was pretty much "accepted" (takes some time with the Bavarians and
a willingness to learn their murky dialect).  I was shocked at the
number of people who, in private conversation, expressed anger and
irritation at the fact that Dachau was left open as a reminder of a
time they would either like to completely forget or pretend never
was.  In fact, I ran into more than one occasion where natives
expressed a sentiment to the effect that "well, we know we have to
say it was wrong, but just between us, you know those Jews were
really troublemakers who brought it on themselves."

In fact, it was continued re-exposure to this mentality that made
it ultimately impossible for my wife and I to continue living there 
comfortably, despite the beautiful countryside and the good beer.

	- Greg Paley