--- In [email protected], new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have long desired to see a "great" novel or film depicting ordinary > germans' lives in the 20's and 30's -- to see how far well-woven > propoganda, and the scarcity of outside information and critical > thought, mixed with peer-pressure, strong and noble themes, etc, in > the context of severe economic depression and hyper-inflation, could > shape ones beliefs towards scapegoats, extreme measures -- and the > unthinkable. >
************* I recommend Klemperer's book "I will bear witness" -- he was a Jew who survived the entire Nazi period in Germany -- a fascinating account of how, little by little, the Jews were non-personed. The main reason he survived was because he was married to a non-Jew, and when his home town of Dresden was bombed, he escaped being sent to a camp because so many Dresdeners had their papers destroyed/lost: http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0375502408-11 Another interesting work is Pringle's "The Master Plan," which recounts SS leader Himmler's propaganda and extermination regime. The thinking was so absurd among the directors of the final solution that they frequently made decisions that seemed to defy any logic. Like the decision in the invasion of the Soviet Union's Caucasus to kill a group of Muslims because they were descended from Jews, but to let live a group of practicing Jews because they were not ethnically Jewish, but Turkic people: http://www.straight.com/content.cfm?id=17266 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
