Julie Hofmann Kemp wrote:

I think we could say: "Tensions between Jews and non-Jews in Germany had been growing for several years, as evidenced by thus and such actual facts that actually happened."

-- Jimmy, even that kind of implies a some kind of mutual antagonism --

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From everything I've read, the tensions were almost entirely created by

non-Jews towards Jews, with a great many of them directly caused by NSDAP propaganda (and the whole Jews killed Jesus thing quite common in both the Catholic and Lutheran churches of the time). I'm all for NPOV, but isn't part of the NPOV credo that minority views that confound reality don't get included?

Yes, I don't disagree with any of this, and perhaps my sentence needs to be edited. :-) My only point was that a fair treatment of the time before WWII need not treat either side as sub-human.

In the case of the Holocaust, there is a fairly large minority world-wide of people who deny the Holocaust. I am on an educator listserve where a teacher SE Asia asked how to deal with the fact that most of her high school students really thought the Nazi flag was cool and whose general impression of Hitler was that he'd been a good leader for the German people. Most had not heard of the Holocaust, and those who did thought reports were exaggerated. Clearly, westerners are more focused on the European Theater in WWII and the holocaust because it directly affected our own history more dramatically. Still I would hate to think that, in the cause of NPOV, we put out articles that were misleading.

I'll stop preaching for the moment.

No, I agree with you completely here.

--Jimbo