FW: Swastika is from Finland?Re: FW: [biofuel] Re: Re: Democracy--Nazi Germany was Democratic!???

2003-02-09 Thread kirk
-Original Message- From: Bronik Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 11:31 AM To: kirk Subject: Swastika is from Finland?Re: FW: [biofuel] Re: Re: Democracy--Nazi Germany was Democratic!??? Kirk, The German Swastika was a Finnish symbol that was adopted by the Nazis. I have

[biofuel] Re: Re: Democracy--Nazi Germany was Democratic!???

2003-02-04 Thread Thor Skov
Hakan, Curtis, and others who may have weighed in with similar opinions, First, let me apologize for a late response to this thread—I was both lurking and busy with other matters. Hakan, you asserted that the Nazi’s had democratic support and that Fascist Germany and Italy held elections until

Re: [biofuel] Re: Re: Democracy--Nazi Germany was Democratic!???

2003-02-04 Thread Hakan Falk
Dear Thor, I am familiar with this and more, but if you go through democratic systems, without direct or proportional representation, the wrong guy can come to power and this without representing the popular vote. US have such a system and the current president is an example on that. It is true

Re: [biofuel] Re: Re: Democracy--Nazi Germany was Democratic!???

2003-02-04 Thread Hakan Falk
Thor, I wanted to take the winter war separately, see below. At 04:52 PM 2/4/2003 -0800, you wrote: snip Also, I can't imagine where you got the notion that Germany fought in the Winter War against Finland. The Soviet Union and Germany had a non-aggression pact during that time, in which the