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Thread #62981   Message #1035342
Posted By: Peter K (Fionn)
14-Oct-03 - 10:07 AM
Thread Name: BS: Maze escape celebration - comment?
Subject: RE: BS: Maze escape celebration - comment?
Sorry Gareth, I couldn't work out what ULR meant. From your later post I realise you meant URL, by which time Wolfgang had dealt with the point more effectively than I would have done.

Larry, I don't see much point being judgemental about that episode at the end of WW2, nor many another in the heat of war. European Judaism had been brought to the brink of extinction, and I don't think we can begin to understand the mindset of what Jewish resistance remained. They certainly had some reason to believe that civilian indifference to their fate, extending far beyond the Nazis, had helped nurture the conditions for the genocide. (And "indifference" is probably too kind a word for the depth of prejudice that was then widespread.)

You're nearly in agreement with Wolfgang, Larry. Why not go that last mile? For me, he says it all.