RE: License to....

[Aleksander Mierzwa <alex@matrix.pl>]

At 16:39 17.10.98 -0700, Avi Meron wrote:

>Geoff,
>Only one comment.......
>Nobody, NOBODY...........has committed anything near as bad as the
>nazis.....................not even the Khemer rough in Cambodia, but to
>their credit the Germans understand it, and try to make amends to the people
>they hurt.......unlike the Swiss and the Swedes and most of all, the very
>rich Japanese, Please do not exclude the French, they collaborated with the
>nazis through and through.............................

With all the respect Avi, this statement is offensive to thousands of
French who did not collaborate and often gave their lives fighting with
Nazis. Please, let's not make
generalizations here and blame whole nations for crimes committed by only a
fraction of it's
members. I come from a nation that suffered lot from Nazis, and even more
from Soviets, but as long as there's at least one German or one Russian who
did not support the regime, I don't feel entitled to say "Germans did
this... Russians did that...". 

Aleksander Mierzwa
Warsaw, Poland
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