Text 20790, 64 rader
Skriven 2006-01-02 12:31:39 av Roy Witt (1:1/22)
  Kommentar till text 20676 av FRANK SCHEIDT (1:123/140)
Ärende: Recent History of Europe
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01 Jan 06 11:18, FRANK SCHEIDT wrote to ALL:

I have. It's a great piece of work...thanks.


 FS> Though I'm certain none of you will actually read it, thus
 FS> avoiding learning more of the truth, there's a fascinating history
 FS> of Europe (Tony Judt, "Postwar:  A History of Europe Since 1945",
 FS> Penguin).  After all, Mr. Judt likely wasn't "there" during WWII
 FS> and, of course, he's probably "senile" ... heh heh heh ...

 FS> Since you won't be reading it, let me tell you some of what it
 FS> contains:  Judt points out that in every occupied country except
 FS> Denmark, local officials lent a hand in the deportation, and
 FS> eventual extermination of millions of Jews ... Europe was not
 FS> murdered by intruders.  It committed suicide ... Much of
 FS> Europe's military, political and cultured elite had fled,
 FS> collaborated, or been killed ...

 FS> The economy of Western Europe was restored because U.S. Secretary
 FS> of State George Marshall proposed a plan of unprecedented
 FS> financial assistance, and the plan was intelligently
 FS> implemented ...

 FS> Europe was able to rebuild itself politically and
 FS> economically only by forgetting the past ... the
 FS> forgetting was necessary not just because the behavior of
 FS> most Europeans under Fascism and Nazi occupation was less
 FS> admirable than anyone wished to acknowledge -- but that
 FS> was naturally a big part of it ... the bewildering
 FS> collapse of the great French Army which folded within
 FS> six weeks ... the alacrity with which many countries adapted
 FS> to occupation ... the willingness to ignore and sometimes to
 FS> assist in, the deportations, all made distasteful memories.

 FS> The forty-million French nation was controlled by a mere fifteen
 FS> hundred Nazis and six thousand German police.  The Netherlands,
 FS> too, were controlled by a skeleton force.  After the war had
 FS> ended a Myth of Resistance sprang up ... for many years it
 FS> obscured the truth about wartime life ...

 FS> But why go on?  None of you will believe this anyway.  The
 FS> European mind is blocked from both the memories of their largely
 FS> disgraceful activities during WWII as well as the fact that it
 FS> was America which raised them from the near-dead.

 FS> *Now* do the non-Europeans among you understand why modern
 FS> Europeans would rather, "Forget about WWII ... let's move
 FS> on!"??? ... heh heh heh ...

 FS> This, then, also helps explain why modern Europe will not
 FS> stand up and help us fight the terrorists in Iraq -- England,
 FS> Italy and Poland excepted, of course.  Why should Europeans feel
 FS> any responsibility -- "Let America do the hard work!"

 FS> ... Don't ever pick a fight with somebody who's really ugly-lookin'.

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