We were talking about Eichman. Don't compare him to everyone in Germany at the time. The three of you are free to believe he was just a regular kind of guy doing his job, maybe a little stupid. I know that's not the case and I'm done discussing it. Especially when you start comparing Jews to insects. That should be a thread killer.
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 16:39:43 -0600, Gruss Gott wrote: > This is almost proof positive of the slippery slope argument with the > Nazis. The argument goes that originally the Jews were only to be > interned, much like American Japanese. That is, by the time anybody > had time to reflect on what had started happening they had already > been a part of it for months or years and since they weren't the ones > turning on the gas they felt isolated from the murders. > > Further, the camp workers were slowly brainwashed into thinking of the > prisoners as animals or, even worse, as an infestation. This is why > murder was referred to as extermination (as with insects). It helped > that the prisoners were slowly starved to death and kept in horrible > conditions such that they didn't much look like healthy adults. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:146202 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
