Hear Hear! Let us hope that Arkaday is not glorifying a mass murderer
and the modern father of ethnic cleansing (as shaking off the shackles
of Versailles)and that he is not trying to rewrite history and deny that
the holocost didn't happen. His comments otherwise would tend to
demonstrate that he is saner and more intelligent than that

-----Original Message-----
From: The Bus Depot [mailto:ron@NETCARRIER.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 1999 11:26 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Shoddy German Workmanship / Racism (No VW content)

Arkady Mervis wrote:

> Germany became a nation of selfmasochists ready to apologize for what
happened
> and mostly of what never happened at all, and kiss the ass of any
jerk.
> The young generation still pays billions  to millions of "survivors"
and
> will never follow the examle of Adolf Hitler when he threw away
> the Versailles Treaty shackles.
> The workforce is demoralized, drinking in workplace is rampant,
workers
> speak all kind of languages....
> The fathers - the bearers of traditions and soldiers, the
grandfathers,
> all lay in graves disgraced and hated by brainwashed sons and
daughters...
> While German carries his groceries in a small bag -
> the Turks push carts. The guests shit and piss in the streets.

As a decendant of Austrian Jews, some of whom died horribly in
concentration
camps that "never happened at all" in the hands of some of those
"bearers of
traditions and soldiers,"  and have been replaced in the factories by
foreigners who "shit and piss in the streets", I'd suggest that there is
another side to this issue.  Comments like these fill me with
deeply-felt
anger, great sadness, and fear. There is an active KKK group in this
part of
Pennsylvania that hands out brochures that read almost *exactly* like
the
above paragraph. The group has a youth contingent in the local public
schools.  Some things never change.  There are so many things I want to
say.
But this is a list about Vanagons and I will hold my tongue.  I just
couldn't let something like this go without saying anything at all.

- Ron Salmon
 The Bus Depot
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