--- In [email protected], "authfriend" wrote:
>
> I don't think "creepy" quite covers it in Hitler's case.
>
Yes, I must admit it probably helps to be German to have followed Hitler
as Fuhrer. I wouldn't have trusted his directions to the nearest beer
hall.
When I was 11 in 1962 and living in Berlin, a German woman was talking
to my Mum about how one day, during the final Battle for Berlin, a group
of Nazis came around everyone's houses to ask for volunteers to make a
last stand against the Russian invasion at Tempelhof Airport. A few days
later the Russians appeared on her doorstep and they were all taken to
Tempelhof to clear up the dead bodies of the teenage boys who'd heeded
the call and been massacred as a result. Shades of Thermopylae.
1962: this was the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis. My dad - a fluent
German speaker - came home one day and said he'd heard a group of
middle-aged Germans talking. One said to the other: "Well, at least if
there is a war they won't be able to claim we started it this time."
Priceless!
