Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxb!mhuxr!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Dinsdale Piranha) Newsgroups: net.books,net.women Subject: Re: Arndt on Hitler Message-ID: <483@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 09:30:32 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxd.483 Posted: Thu Feb 7 09:30:32 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Feb-85 05:40:26 EST References: <451@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: The Gang - Other Other Operations Division Lines: 33 Xref: watmath net.books:1414 net.women:4406 > I agree that freedom of speech is a fine right. I agree that, as Rich Rosen > says, many non-thinking people vote - but don't gloss over what happened in > Germany under Hitler as something having nothing to do with reason. > Read Albert Speer's SPANDAU DIARIES. He tells how he fell under Hitler's > spell.He went to a rally expecting to see a funny little man dressed up in a > uniform raving and shouting like a loonie. Well, he found a quiet well > spoken, sincere man in a business suit (he was addressing businessmen) talking > about the sad shape Germany was in (all too true) and how he wanted, with > their support, to DO something about it. My point being that Hitler was no > dummy. Don't let the newsreels fool you. He tailored his speech and manner > to the audience. Just like today's pols. If Gobbels had had T.V.!!! ...he'd be Jerry Falwell!! > They were trying to build a new world. Many of them were 'good' men as well > as good Germans. So easy to be pulled along and join up. The horror came > soon enough. But the first SS men British troops met behaved honorably. Sounds a good deal like the goals of the Moral Majority, no? > Evil men fool good men with 'reason', eh? I like that line from the old > 'Secret Agent' TV series title song: "A pretty face can hid an evil mind." From the same song: "They've given you a number, and taken away your name." > Well, a reasoned platform can hid an 'evil' program. Can't an emotional > platform 'hide' a good program??? Read the signature line. Not likely. If they have to resort to emotional appeals, how substantive can the platform be? -- Anything's possible, but only a few things actually happen. Rich Rosen pyuxd!rlr