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Author: Ed Harris (London) | [ Next Thread |
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] Date Posted: 16:40:10 01/16/05 Sun In reply to: Ein european 's message, "But then Rommel was never a Nazi" on 15:05:19 01/16/05 Sun Here, I'm all for standing up for Harry on the grounds that he's not evil but just a bit of a twit, but to suggest that there is a qualitative, rather than quantitative, difference between Rommel and Hitler is absurd. So was less mad than Hitler. So were Mussolini and Franco. Doesn't make them nice chaps. He fought for National Socialist Germany for years, and helped to roll the allies back to the Egyptian border. I doubt that any of his private papers say, "Ach, I am so unhappy because of all the successes which I have won for the Third Reich. I wish that the British would fight me better so my conscience were at rest." Also bear in mind the fact that many of those who wrote the anti-Jewish legislation did not approve of the Holocaust. Frankly, I do not think that these people were nice chaps because they thought that mass extermination was going a bit far, and that the Reich should stick at putting the Jews in ghettos and making them wear stars and so forth, which was comparatively moderate. These things are all relative, and while Rommel may have been nice compared to, say, Hitler, he was quite nasty compared to, say, Neville Chamberlain. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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Author: Ein European [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 17:34:35 01/16/05 Sun No, he was never a Nazi. He lived in a Nazi state and he was a professional soldier, and a damn good one as well. THe fact that he was a professional soldier fighting for Germany between 1939-1944 doesn't qualify him automatically as good or bad. Prussian soldiers didn't question the motives, they just acted to the better of their abilities. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Ed Harris (London) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 17:54:21 01/16/05 Sun So he was just following orders, was he? Well, that's fine then. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |