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 --
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