NP - W von Braun on Nazi Hunter doc

[rich]

does history really work that way, I mean from street level? a nation weary
of war, so much death. your oh gosh comment doesnt really cut it. I'm sure
you'd be first on the picket lines back then wouldnt you? but who knows,
maybe nback then you'd have a favorable view of fascists. I dont mean to be
a dick. Im just saying you really cant come hard down on average people
(not just Americans mind you) from the safe confines of 50-100 yrs hence.
any one of us could have had a favorable view of monstrous people based on
circumstances. if there is any lesson from the horrors of WW2 is that
anybody at any time can do the most horrendous things. you cant distance
those people from yourself.

rich


On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 4:11 AM, matthew cissell <mccissell at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for both your and Monte's responses.
>
> Although History Channel productions are not my cup of meat for
> history, the fact that The Team was in the news, which I had no idea
> about, got me to thinking about the post someone put up some weeks
> back about American press infatuation with Hitler at home (Sept.4
> Daily Mail). As I recall from that post many Americans held a
> favorable view of AH. Perhaps all that made it easier to just let the
> whole thing roll on by. "German (Nazi) scientists working in the US?
> Oh gosh what a shock - can you pass the cornbread?" I mean by that
> time the REAL fight was with them Reds.
>
> Didn't Wilhelm Reich say something about at a certain level the
> Germans wanted a dictator? This then makes me think about how some of
> Pynchon's characters (Frenesi for example) gravitate toward these
> fascistic personalities.
>
>
> Thanks for the Linda Hunt reference, I just downloaded the PDF.
>
> Ciao
> MC otis
>
> >
>
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