[lit-ideas] Re: Calley
- From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 11:50:54 -0700
Lawrence wrote
Hmmm.
You are technically right because I didn't repeat the words of Mike
that I was disagreeing with, namely ". . . that much if not most of
the leadership of the Third Reich were highly educated and cultured."
However, I didn't intend to expand Mike's "Nazi leadership" to "all
Nazis." I had in mind "Nazi Leadership." And Joseph Mengele was
never a Nazi leader. Speer was educated as an architect and my
impression is that his duties were restricted to architectural
enterprises. He was sentenced to 20 years at Nuremberg, for using
forced labor in his building activities....
However, I'll abandon my quibble and give you Speers -- and I already
conceded Goebbels. Still, Goebbels and Speer are weak shoulders to
carry the burden of Geary's assertion that "much if not most of the
leadership of the Third Reich were highly educated and cultured."
Your quibble? I'm not Mike (and I have a birth certificate to prove it).
I'd thought that when you asked for some examples of highly educated
Nazis, other than Goebbels, you wanted examples of highly educated Nazis
other than Goebbels. In other words, I took you at your word. You ask
for some apples, and I give you some (which happen to be Yellow
Delicious), only to be told that, although what you really wanted were
some Granny Smiths, I'm technically right. Technology never ceases to
amaze me.
Robert Paul
I know that Goebbels was highly educated, but I can't think of anyone
else that was. The Third Reich was commonly thought to be peopled by
"thugs." Heidegger was highly disappointed in the educational level
of the Fascist leaders. Those who did study on their own, it seems to
me, were more likely to study some pseudoscience, or something bizarre
like anthroposophy than anything we in civilized places like Memphis
might study.
But I could be wrong. Give me some examples of highly educated Nazis
besides Goebbels.
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