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In Reply to: Re: A somewhat brief response posted by Jules on December 03, 2003 at 07:48:21:
I read the article by Kimel, but I do not agree that Germans are collectively "guilty" regarding the holocaust. Not any more than I believe all whites are collectively responsible for slavery of blacks or apartheid as it has been experienced in America in the not too distant past. By the way, the people that fed and housed Anne Franke and others were German. Why did they not speak out? I think they did the best they could in their situation. Clearly others did not.
I am interested as to why it is so important for Kimel to make a distinction that seeks to condemn all Germans by making Shindler appear as Czechoslavakian. What is the point of that? Schindler, btw, saw people die. He did not speak out. He worked from within and fronted the Nazis. Why was that? What was bigger about the Nazi fervor than the sum of all of its citizenry?
Nazi= short for National Socialist Party. The ultra-right wing politics of rascist Germany which all Germans did NOT support.
Because I say this does NOT mean that I support Nazi's. Not by a long shot. But I will not be like the Nazi's and paint a whole nation as evil because their leaders were corrupt.
I don't see blanket generalizations as accomplishing anything constructive.
