Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

To: PAR35
I can't agree re the SS - they didn't HAVE any middle managers, they all knew perfectly well what they were up to.

Maybe some Staatsbeamt functionary in some little country town (the Diocese of Virginia isn't all that big really), overly impressed by some bigwigs from Berlin.

10 posted on 01/24/2009 9:04:43 AM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse (TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary - recess appointment))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies ]


To: AnAmericanMother
I can't agree re the SS - they didn't HAVE any middle managers, they all knew perfectly well what they were up to.

I've read that only about 50,000 SS folks were involved by war crimes. So that leaves a lot of folks who didn't get their hands dirty. And the guy in Berlin that had to track soap and toilet paper usage doesn't have the same culpability as a death camp commandant. As for the Godwin’s Law comment - it is comforting to try to think of Nazis as being uniquely evil, but most of them were just ordinary folks.

14 posted on 01/24/2009 3:04:39 PM PST by PAR35
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson