-Caveat Lector- Sno0wl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -Caveat Lector- > > On 27 May 99, , Taylor, wrote: > > > Horrified Western > > historians were unified in their inability to understand how the > > "Christian" Germany of Martin Luther could have become the Satanic Germany > > of Adolf Hitler. > > Seems to me that Martin Luther was decidedly anti-Semitic, so it would not be a very > great leap from Luther to Hitler. > FWIW, the last time this came up on the list, I did an extensive search both on the Internet and offline, and was NOT able to confirm the antisemitic remarks attributed to Martin Luther. Every reference led back to dubious sources. My conclusion, therefore, is that the allegations that Luther held antisemitic views are just that, allegations, probably originating with genuine antisemites who wanted to give their ideology an aura of historical legitimacy. More to the point than wondering how Luther's Germany became the Hitlerian abomination, ask yourselves how the *liberal* Germany of Beethoven and Schiller, the Germany that produced the "Ode to Joy," could become the Third Reich of the Nazis. I have spent a lifetime struggling with that question, and I still have no answer, except to say that Germans, like all other human beings, are extraordinarily complex and contradictory beings. Remember this when contemplating the Nazis: the same people that produced the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution, in the century that followed, engaged in multiple imperialist wars of aggression and decimated the native peoples of North America in a tragedy at least as horrible as the Holocaust, as well as embracing an economic system that reduced millions of their fellow American citizens to wage slavery no better than the chattel slavery practiced in the slave states of the South. Each of us is a potential Hitler. Bob ================================= Robert F. Tatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remove "nospam" from the address to reply. NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml POSTING THIS MESSAGE TO THE INTERNET DOES NOT IMPLY PERMISSION TO SEND UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL E-MAIL (SPAM) TO THIS OR ANY OTHER INTERNET ADDRESS. RECEIPT OF SPAM WILL RESULT IN IMMEDIATE NOTIFICATION OF THE SENDER'S ISP. ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
