Hi Kat,
I am afraid I don't understand the your last sentence - "So,
please don't take our words out of context and use them in a bigger sense
than they were meant to be". I merely ventured an opinion and information on
Mitsubishi - I got a chill when I peeked under the hood of my Voyager back
87 and saw it had a Misubishi engine - I believe I probably would have
reacted like an idiot at the time - after all like most naturalized people I
am fervently and passionately American. I realize that life and events are
immensely complex and intertwined I know the seeds for WWII where sown at
the end of the 1st World War. I also know folks - which includes me are not
always rational about stuff. I believe as things recede in the annuals of
time the feelings die - the problem is more that the people who are Germans
today - are still being held up as bad guys for WWII - and anyone born after
1945 - or even 1940 - is not guilty. I guess it might explain my reation if
I said I hate when things are blanket covered - the Germans, The Jews, The
Able bodied, etc. My reaction is you have just condemned everyone who fits
in that category - and a number of those folks will be innocent.
To anwser how my Mother and I became German. My mother and her
family are from Danzig. Danzig was at the time a free city. Now it is Polish
- Gedansk. Hitler cmae in just like he did in Poland and other places and
annexed it for Germany and the folks became German. After the war - My
mother followed the instructions - that everyone was to meet at my Great
Uncles house in Nuremberg - after a few years - she fled the east zone, met
my American father, and had me - since they weren't married - I was
automatically the nationality of my mother - German.
I must tell you I hate the Nazi's - I was furious when some almost
30's ago I saw one here on the streets of DC in his bown uniform - I wanted
to pick up a two by four and brain him. I remember asking my boyfriend how
could American allow this - and he pointed its free country and showed me
the Arlington headquarters - So I hate the Nazi's be they American, German
or whatever. But - I note a difference between German and Nazi. And many
times people don't. Its like sayiong all white Americans are Klan Members -
I don't think sooooooo.....
Trisha
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kathy Salkin [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 1:27 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Question
>
> Trish,
>
> Like I said in an earlier post, the Marshall Plan after WWII helped
> Germany
> get back on its feet economically, and rightfully so. I have no prejudice
> against Germans or German products in general (after all I use
> Faber-Castell
> drawing pencils and Fimo, a German polymer clay in my artwork), it's just
> the
> ones that advanced the Nazi cause or aided it that I'm against. But then
> where
> do you draw the line? IBM supposedly did business with Nazi Germany
> during
> WWII yet I've not heard anything about boycotting them. I think it's
> right to
> draw the line somewhere, forgive, and move on. But not to forget. Never
> forget.
>
> I would be the first to say that the Allies erred badly in the Treaty of
> Versailles in treating Germany the way they did after WWI ended. They
> made it
> possible for bad enough economic conditions so as to allow Hitler and the
> Nazis to come to power and thus pave the way for the concentration camps
> and
> WWII.
>
> We Americans weren't blameless in WWII - look at the way we treated the
> Japanese-Americans -- shameful.
>
> I don't hate Germans, that would be petty and stupid of me, don't you
> think?
>
> How and why was your mother forced to become German by Hitler? I'm
> curious.
>
> So, please don't take our words out of context and use them in a bigger
> sense
> than they were meant to be.
>
> Kat
>
>
> On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 12:18:49 -0400 Trisha Cummings <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > Hiltler ) and you are directing your hatred
> > towards people who have had no
> > connection to it at all or had no choice as to
> > their nationality ( like me)
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