GRGR Re: German sadism

[JBFRAME at aol.com]

In a message dated 04/12/2000 12:47:31 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de writes:

<< if goldhagen's thesis would be 
    true, one would have to find this elimination wish  b e f o r e  1933 in 
some 
    social forms, be that spontaneous pogroms like in russia or a sharply 
    polarizing state affair (- read proust on it!) like in france or a 
    significantly higher degree of labor market exclusion like in the 
anglo-saxon 
    countries. but you won't find this in german history. >>

I agree.  From most accounts, before Hitler, anti-semitism in Germany was no 
worse & in some areas much less virulent than in other places, especially 
Eastern Europe.  This is what makes it all the more shocking & perhaps feeds 
the denial that is rampant in places like England &  the USA.

My 2¢
jbf