On 30 Aug 2004, at 3:41 am, Dan Minette wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>No deal. Your basic presumption is flawed. Not every German during the holocaust was automatically and without exception a participant in the holocaust and a jew murdering nazi.
Not every one, probably not. But, it was common knowledge and there was no
indication of public horror at it. As Gautam said, it wasn't accidental;
it was deliberate policy from on high.
And the dangers of a lack of cultural diversity. Germany was a modern European Christian nation after all. It was like the Stanford Prison Experiment on a national scale. With few dissenting voices things went very wrong.
We all like to think that if we were a 'guard' in the SPE we would take a stand and behave correctly (and I, of course, would) but that's not what the experiment showed...
Alternatively the entire German nation could be intrinsically Evil.
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