Kakki wrote: > Vince, > > This seems so odd that it would be misquoted all these years. The more > well-known, quote mentioned them coming for the Catholics, Gypsies, etc. as > I recall.
Accretion. The Gypsies were in fact gathered up for extermination, along with gays and people with mental and physical retardation. As any story gets told over and over, it gets "added to" in the oral tradition. The additions do not take away the essential meaning of the quote and are probably added because it reinforces the quote. > Which is some of the groups the Nazi's came after. The Catholics were never rounded up. There were of course individual Roman Catholics who were, but it was the Protestants who formed the Confessing Church, including Niemoeller, who took the hit there. > Somehow this > corrected quote doesn't make sense to me, and maybe you can enlighten me. > Was Germany filled with Communists at the time? There were some, yes, although Germany was hardly "filled with Communists." And only a Hitler would think that because someone was a Communist, they should be put into concentration camps. (For anyone who wants to make the obvious replies to that statement, I invite you...) > Why would they come for the > Socialists when the name "Nazi" is short for "National Socialist Party?" I cannot help you if you do not know the difference between the Nazi's and the socialists. If you wish to take the name of the Nazi party at face value, I can only suggest that you do some reading on the subject. The Nazis were not, *not*, not in any way, socialists; they were fascists, the mortal enemies of socialists. > > > And I guess the rest of your post makes the analogy that Ashcroft is a Nazi? > O.K. No, Kakki, it does not make that analogy, I did not say that, and frankly, I resent the implication. I seriously resent it. Not OK. That is a very unfair statement. > > > Kakki, again reconsidering emigration from Amerika This land was made for you and me, Kakki. (the Rev) Vince
