[extropy-chat] 'History' and the fulcrum of 1945

[Jef Allbright]

Hubert Mania wrote:

>Thank you, Amara, for your understanding.
>
>I can give you a tiny part of the view as a post war german school boy.
>Certainly, everyone here on this list has experienced or heard of a local
>vietnam veteran going mad, killing his wife or still behaving like a warrior
>in the relatively peaceful environment of a us suburb. Now imagine, you are
>a german school boy of 7 or 8 years and ALL male persons, your father, your
>uncles, some of your older cousins, your teachers, priests and doctors . . .
>they all are WWII veterans. They are mass murderers in the name of fascism,
>some of them, maybe the barber of your home town and the neglected drunkard
>at the end of the street who lost his job 10 years ago, even contributed
>their share to the unimaginable event called holocaust or shoah.
>
>  
>

Hubert -

Thank you for your recent contribution to the list.  This is the first 
post from you over the last few years that I could read to the end 
without prematurely deleting it as an emotional rant. It helped me 
listen and understand your point of view far better than all the others 
combined.

- Jef