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[Mark Kohut]

looks like my Shelley remark was off-base, now that I have learned more. I
sorta assumed some of Hitler's
ambitions came from May's work somehow.

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 4:43 AM, Thomas Eckhardt <
thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:

> Yes. I just wanted to make clear that May was not a white supremacist and
> cannot have influenced Hitler in this respect. May was a bit of a
> German/Christian exceptionalist but not in any military sense.
>
> Wiki puts it rather well:
>
> "In his admiration, Hitler ignored May's Christian and humanitarian
> approach and views completely, not mentioning his relatively sympathetic
> description of Jews and other persons of non-Northern European ancestry."
>
>
>
>
> Am 21.06.2016 um 18:32 schrieb Monte Davis:
>
>> I was thinking of Hitler as fan, not of May's own views. Cf. also the
>> savages of James Fenimore Cooper, noble or ignoble as the plot required.
>>
>
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