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Eric in Ohio
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Ch. 10 The Long Wait
Mon 2/15/43
EA said it’s impt for postwar reconstruction to realize “the German people, as human material, were exactly like our people: fickle, gullible, and intellectually lazy. The Germans, like ourselves, must be trained to think. They must learn to accept nothing prima facie.” Mom misses the point, says “you must be completely inhuman not to be revolted by what’s happening.”
— Jul 16, 2026 07:14AM
Mon 2/15/43
EA said it’s impt for postwar reconstruction to realize “the German people, as human material, were exactly like our people: fickle, gullible, and intellectually lazy. The Germans, like ourselves, must be trained to think. They must learn to accept nothing prima facie.” Mom misses the point, says “you must be completely inhuman not to be revolted by what’s happening.”
Eric in Ohio
is 71% done
Ch. 10 The along Wait
Mon 2/15/43
EA adds “it was possible to feel not only for the tortured Jews but of the Germans, that there for the grace of god go I.” Recalled the wild reaction to Chamberlain after Munich and the “cult of the umbrella.”
— Jul 16, 2026 07:10AM
Mon 2/15/43
EA adds “it was possible to feel not only for the tortured Jews but of the Germans, that there for the grace of god go I.” Recalled the wild reaction to Chamberlain after Munich and the “cult of the umbrella.”
Eric in Ohio
is 71% done
Ch. 10 The Long Wait
Mon., 2/15/43, reflects on tiff with her mom re news of German anti-Jewish “butcheries”proving they “are not human.” EA says “as long as the vast body of the people of any nation were barely literate it would always be possible to lead them into excesses of vicious cruelty.”
— Jul 16, 2026 07:08AM
Mon., 2/15/43, reflects on tiff with her mom re news of German anti-Jewish “butcheries”proving they “are not human.” EA says “as long as the vast body of the people of any nation were barely literate it would always be possible to lead them into excesses of vicious cruelty.”