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Jul 01, 2013 Letters
Dear Editor,
I read the recent column about racism perhaps being the saddest thing in the world, which ends with the hope that “one day we judge each other for what we essentially are and not on what is inside our genes”. And so say many of us.
I have often hoped to lay my hands on, or see a film about, what the Nazis (and others) think of the nations they had ructions with, in the past.
A German colleague once told me that Germany was once a class-ridden society and when Hitler came to power he “stamped it all out”.
My colleague also said that from what she gathered, Hitler’s biggest gripe with the Jewish people was their failure to circulate money nationwide – they kept it within their community. I read a few years ago that it was the Jewish philosophy that money made within their community must be allowed to circulate therein twelve times! To me, in effect this means it may never leave the community.
My colleague amused me by saying during hot summers, at work, she and her fellow typists were allowed to sit at their desks in swim suits, playsuits and micro skirts, without any objections from their bosses.
I imagine they were working behind-the-scenes away from public gaze. A Dutch tour guide told me he worked as an interpreter with the Germans during WWII and they were very considerate employers.
Recently, I read a piece on the Jewish position today. They argued that during WWII and the period of the Holocaust, the world seemed to have forsaken them and, at the end of the war, their leaders decided that they must never again suffer a similar fate, they must practise self-reliance, build up a strong defence force and take responsibility for their own lives. They have, and now use it as intended. No doubt other cultures are, at this very moment, thinking the same.
I guess there are two sides to everything. My own view is that all leaders have to delegate responsibilities and cannot be everywhere to prevent the atrocities committed in their names, but, unfortunately, the buck stops with them.
Geralda Dennison
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