Well, trish, I may have just have had my head in adark place, but, I am
nearly 54 and I have never witnessed an incident of a german descended
person being blamed for what hitler did. And I lived in small town alabama
where predudice was shown quite freely as I was growing up. Anyway, I am
glad you have had now 15 years without this going on.

-----Original Message-----
From: Trisha Cummings [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 12:19 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Question

Then perhaps you should know Mitsubishi made the engines for thr Japanese
Kamikazi planes.  And US cars today have engines made by them.  Or we could
remember WWII ended 57 years ago and the people who where there are very old
now ( and some folks like my mother who where forced to become German by
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)
. In doing this you just incur their animosity. This would seem to be silly
to my way of thinking that like holding the genocide the Jews did in Bible
times against today's Jews. As a former German - I must tell its only been
maybe 15 years since I have been able to say I was a born German and the
first words out of someone's mouth aren't - Oh, you are  NAZI. The problem
with hatred it's directed against the innocence as well as the truly
involved. I grew up not liking the Jews - becasue the didn't like me - I
hated being bamed for what happened in WWII - I was born 8 years after the
war ended - in a refugee home. I had nothing to do with Hitler or the Nazi's
but I have held accountable for there stuff. I can tell you its breeds
hatred - its on thing to be guilty but a totally other thing to be innocent.
The people who do things should be held accountable - not the innocents - or
everyone should be reviled for something becasue everyone has someone in
their past who isn't lily white. And on the totally amusing side - I have
inccurred Alex's Grandmother's wrath becasue I allow Alex to date a Jewish
boy - and he happens to be the son of a friend of mine and he wants to be a
Rabbi. And I guess Simon gets falack for dating a non-jew.  Can we say
petty!  There are times when I feel religion was made by the Devil - becasue
it feeds the hatred instead of creating love and better people. Of course
the ultimate perpetrators are the individuals themselves - we should begin
to blame individuals after all good and bad are found in everything.

                                   Trisha


> I'd no idea until today that Hitler'd had any role in the development of
> the
> Volkswagen Beetle.  Not sure I'd have bought my car if I'd known at the
> time.
>
> Kat
>
> On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 12:57:08 -0400 Meir Weiss <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > Volkes as in folks/ nation
> >
> > Wagon/  car
> >
> > My father may he r.i.peace
> >
> > Was a child  holocaust survivor (orphan)
> >
> > For his whole life he refused to buy german
> > products
> >
> > ESP volkeswagon-bmw (bavaria
> >
> > Mercedes benz
> >
> > All those
> >
> > Just fyi  :)