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There are yet elements of your account that appear dubious to those of us who take an interest in these things. Not really the point though.
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Quote:<hr> It is just that I would like people to be less ready to use Germany, especially during WWII, as the example of everything evil, even like Sauron.<hr></blockquote>
While I am not unsympathetic to the burden which post-war generations in Germany may feel called upon to bear, it seems to me that my criticism of Neville Chamberlain's conduct salts that wound rather obliquely. In this case, Nazi Germany represents only the common background of western experience in this century. One could have as well spoken of English indifference to the Armenian Genocide or American indifference to events in Cambodia but they seemed like examples less likely to resonate with my presumed audience and less apt to my case.
Having used the example of English policy as my particular example of moral culpability and having carefully shunned the issues of Spain, the Rhineland, and Czechoslovakia, I was surprised at your defensive reply, the one which elicited Taimar's Guernica post.
I don't think that the example of Nazi Germany will be expunged from the historical record soon. If you are not implicated in it, for heaven sake don't answer for it and don't apologize for it.
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