{ Wednesday, March 12, 2003 }
Hermann Goering, at the Nuremberg Trials April 18, 1946
(Thanks Eric)
LINK | 4:47 AM | TB
http://www.amptoons.com/blog/arc20030309.html#BlogID332
It's a very authoritative, convincing and attractively stated proposition... classic Nazi rhetoric, in other words.
For this reason, I find it hard to take it as advice, strictly speaking. If I start thinking "Some things are true, even if Goering said them", I fall in with Tom Friedman, who said the other day, "Some things are true even if George Bush believes them."
Let's not forget Goering was trying to spread blame, and manufacture moral equivalencies to defend himself against charges of Holocaust, the organized mass murder of millions of civilians. He was lying on a daily basis, in other words.
tim | March 13, 2003 1:28 PMApropos of listening to Goering, I looked up the casualty figures for the first and second World Wars, and see more than a million French and 279,000 British soldiers died in 1914-15 alone, while "only" killing 612,000 on the German side.
America lost only 112,000 during their part of the war, in 1918, and half of them due to influenza.
The French then lost 700,000 soldiers and civilians in their single-front war during WWII, the Germans lost close to 7 MILLION. We lost virtually no civilians, and 400, 000 soldiers during WWII. Is there any need to wonder why they prefer diplomacy to slaughter? Looking at this pile of bodies, it is easy to see why they think war is no answer. Will we learn the hard way too?
tim | March 14, 2003 7:20 AMWe live in a time of bristling irony. Pithy observations abound about how the world really isn't the way it seems to be if you believe the media. The fallout will be more and more people wising up.
Paul | March 15, 2003 12:38 PMThis quote is going around as though Goering said this at trial while under oath in front of all the respectable people who agreed and are carrying on the work of world domination.
This is the full quote and it was said to an interviewer during recess.
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Goering: "Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in American, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship."
Gilbert: "There is one difference. In a democracy the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars."
Goering: "Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
Nazi leader Hermann Goering, interviewed by Gustave Gilbert during the Easter recess of the Nuremberg trials, 1946 April 18, quoted in Gilbert's book Nuremberg Diary
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This is a different world than WWII era, people are learning everyday on the internet about the whole world.
Who is truly spreading fear; the democratic leaders of free world or those against them?
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Wow. I paused a moment to recover after reading that. Scarey stuff.
Loliinspired | March 12, 2003 6:50 AM