Posted by Lou Pilder on August 8, 2007, at 20:37:35
In reply to Re: Lou's response to Sigismund's post-musoeichohi » Lou Pilder, posted by Sigismund on August 8, 2007, at 17:00:42
> Hello Lou
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> I'm very impressed by Option D (redacted by discussant) though I confess I do not understand what the word means. I came across this when reading Harold Bloom's "The Book of J", where one of the biblical authors of the first 4 Biblical books was called 'the redactor'. I once went to the effort of reading the text of Eichmann's interrogation. For people who set such store by racial appearance, the Nazis were a pretty unprepossessing lot. Hitler did have this funny thing about laughing. Some of his most menacing speeches mention it, and he would cover his mouth when he did so. I have even seen a *relatively* attractive photo of him (early in the war, successfully invading Yugoslavia), so clearly I have spent more time than is sensible on this sort of thing. I hesitate to say anything more positive about Eichmann. He can't have been honest during his interrogation. But perhaps 20 years later those enthusiasms had faded and seemed like a distant dream?Sigismund,
You wrote,[...He (Eichmann) can't have been honest during his interogation...].
When the war-criminal trials began, the US and Russia and others agreed before hand that the defense of the deputies of Hitler would not be allowed to use as a defense that they were just following Hitler's orders. This has become known as the Nuremberg defense. I think that this is why Rudolf Hess received life and the others were executed, for Hess resigned rather than do the wishes of Hitler.
Eichmann involked the defense that the allies said at the start of the trials that they would not accept. He involked this to an Isreali court, for he ecaped justice in 1945 and went to Argentina and eluded capture until around 1961.
He did not deny the major charges against him, but said that he did what Hitler wanted him to do.
In reading Justice Jackson's cross-examination of the National Socialists (Nazis) on trial at Nuremburg, many of them told the truth without trying to hide anything. They said that they were doing what would be best for Germany as a whole and was to please Hitler. Eichman said the same.
Since the past in 1945, the world courts have condemned any policy that says anything that could lead a Jew to feel accused or put down as per being state-sponsored, even if the ones promulgating such are following orders. I for one will use all my might to keep the feelings of those that want to present any doctrine that says that their religion, or anyone else's religion, is superior to the Jew's religion. For that was accepted in the past, and I will try to keep that past from being brought into the present.
Lou
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