tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644690488802388716.post4194429181221049651..comments2024-03-28T23:48:27.173-06:00Comments on Mysteries and More from Saskatchewan: Seduced by Hitler by Adam LeBor and Roger BoyesBill Selneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17268006369157307593noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644690488802388716.post-23802445655496768952016-05-31T23:20:34.118-06:002016-05-31T23:20:34.118-06:00Kathy D.: Thanks for the comment. I have mentioned...Kathy D.: Thanks for the comment. I have mentioned those brave ladies in a post I just put on the blog. Bill Selneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17268006369157307593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644690488802388716.post-27544133337265100352016-05-30T03:25:02.929-06:002016-05-30T03:25:02.929-06:00Aaaaauuuugh! on the followers of a billionaire fas...Aaaaauuuugh! on the followers of a billionaire fascist. <br /><br />I do think that the Nazis did not want to confront physically mny Christian women demonstrating together. That would not have helped morale or the war effort for Germany. But Rosenstrasse shows the women chanting right up to the Nazi officers' faces, facing down their machine guns. We cheered for those women watching the film. Fearless.<br /><br />I believe that Christian men with Jewish wives did not usually fight for them, but walked away, one of the worst stories I ever heard.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644690488802388716.post-80153635295849756892016-05-29T21:38:05.130-06:002016-05-29T21:38:05.130-06:00Kathy D.: Thanks for the comment. The protest in m...Kathy D.: Thanks for the comment. The protest in mid-war saved Jewish men. The authors discuss the protests and that the Nazis did not want to confront average Germans on the issue of Jewish deportations.<br /><br />On your presidential election I cannot understand the choice of many Americans.Bill Selneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17268006369157307593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644690488802388716.post-19516312060583342272016-05-28T22:56:44.616-06:002016-05-28T22:56:44.616-06:00The Nazis knew how to use propaganda in speeches, ...The Nazis knew how to use propaganda in speeches, parades, movies, anti-Semitic cartoons, etc. They did it. <br /><br />I choose not to look at those who followed the Nazis. I've seen Germans on TV who said that family members were threatened, which is often not discussed.<br /><br />I prefer to look at those who resisted in many ways, often quietly. The New York Times wrote a few years ago that 800,000 people were political prisoners in Germany during the war. This means that many did resist.<br /><br />And then there's Rosenstrasse, the film about Christian women who demonstrated every day against the Nazis, demanding their Jewish husbands be released from a deportation center. They won that after incredibly bravery.<br /><br />Anyway, we have our own problems here with a potential presidential candidate who uses racism, xenophobia, stifles the press, encourages brutality against protesters, etc. Apparently, according to many accounts, he studied Hitler's speeches.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644690488802388716.post-64007625692623146482016-05-26T23:57:44.102-06:002016-05-26T23:57:44.102-06:00Moira: Thanks for the comment. I cannot see much r...Moira: Thanks for the comment. I cannot see much reason in our current world to think we have "learned the lessons".Bill Selneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17268006369157307593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644690488802388716.post-79872666569357776812016-05-26T15:54:01.439-06:002016-05-26T15:54:01.439-06:00Oh dear, too sad. Hope we've learned the lesso...Oh dear, too sad. Hope we've learned the lessons.Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644690488802388716.post-68137412198516530042016-05-25T15:52:50.423-06:002016-05-25T15:52:50.423-06:00Margot: Thanks for the comment. Are we more resist...Margot: Thanks for the comment. Are we more resistant to manipulation today? I doubt it.<br />Bill Selneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17268006369157307593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644690488802388716.post-66959636769733935312016-05-25T05:18:00.041-06:002016-05-25T05:18:00.041-06:00This sounds really fascinating, Bill, and quite un...This sounds really fascinating, Bill, and quite unsettling at the same time. That sort of psychological manipulation (and all of the other manipulation that goes with it) is really scary. And the more we learn about these tactics, the more we learn about how the Nazis managed to gain the control they did. It does make one uncomfortable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com