Re: [Cz-L] Resilience

From: jerome schatten <romers_at_shaw.ca>
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 10:35:02 -0800
To: Merle Kastner <merlek_at_videotron.ca>
Reply-To: jerome schatten <romers_at_shaw.ca>

Christian...

I can only echo Merle's comments -- she said it better than I ever
could. Your contributions and observations are very highly valued, a
real 'mench'. Thanks for hanging in there with us!
jerome

On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 08:44 -0500, Merle Kastner wrote:
> Dear Christian,
>
> You a very special person.
> And your contributions to this list and all that it stands for,
> what we are all trying to accomplish, to share and to learn, are so
> highly appreciated.
>
> Merle
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christian Herrmann" <cyberorange_at_gmx.de>
> To: <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>; <hardy3_at_bezeqint.net>
> Cc: <czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 2:03 AM
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Resilience
>
>
> > Good morning Mimi, Hardy and everybody else,
> >
> > yes, Hardy is right, about 50 percent of the German Jews survived because
> > they left Germany early enough. From those who stayed only very few
> > survived, either because they managed to stay alive in the camps or were
> > hidden.
> >
> > Historians like Raul Hilberg doubt that there was a German plan from the
> > very begining on. In his work "The Extermination of European Jews" he
> > describes the dangerous dynamics and escalations within the huge number of
> > people involved in persecution and the bureaucratic decisions to be made
> > by them day by day. What started with rethorics ended with the
> > assasination of millions. Hilberg identifies the knowledge that the
> > "Jewish question" was of top priority for Hitler as the driving force
> > behind those people's motivation. Every step of radicalization improved
> > the chance to build a career under the conditions of dictatorship and war.
> > Hilberg's work belonges to the very few books that helped me to understand
> > why the holocaust happend and not only how.
> >
> > Those who don't like to read a comprehensive work in three volumes can
> > listen to Raul Hilberg in Claude Lanzman's documentary Shoah.
> >
> > Christian
>

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