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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 12:52:58 -0700
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- From: "Frederick the Great" <J_CAUSEY@CCNODE.COLORADO.EDU>
- Subject: My posting about German fascist strife.
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- > Hi Jim,
- > I enjoyed your contribution about being afraid of having to go
- > "over there" (to Germany) with the U.S. army very much. It serves
- > as proof to the academic education some people seem to get in the
- > U.S. If you followed the news about Germany in a serious publication
- > instead of playing war games and pursuing studies on Friedrich der
- > Grosse, you might have noticed that there is a marked difference
- > between L.A.-type riots (and I am not afraid of having to go over
- > there to quell a race riot as part of a UN-force) and the kind of
- > street violence by right-wing idiots over here. There are new Nazis
- > in Germany, but their numbers are ridiculous. And we do have a
- > foreigner problem, indeed. The problem is that Germany accepts 55 per
- > cent of all the refugees coming to Western Europe annually. Whereas
- > the number of people fleeing to France has diminished in this year,
- > it has dramatically increased in Germany, to a rate of about 50,000
- > coming every month. (Just as a reminder - there are 80 mio people
- > living in Germany, on an area of about 350,000 squ. km). And,
- > combined with the deteriorating economy, the huge problems in
- > formerly communist East Germany and the deterioration of world
- > economy, it becomes quite obvious that we are not able to allow
- > everybody in. People from Romania and Poland, from the former
- > Yugoslavia and, only beginning, from the former USSR, see Germany
- > as the place to go. Imagine every Mexican living on the border, and
- > every Columbian, Peruvian, whatever living below the poverty line
- > coming to the U.S.| So, next time you hear something about Germany,
- > remember that we live in a democracy, that our civilization has been
- > around for a while, that we are part of NATO, of the EC, CSCE, you
- > name it. And remember that while the U.S. is indubitably a great
- > country, it cannot provide the panacea for the rest of the world.
- > And, if you can work that out somehow, study abroad, get to know
- > other countries and try to understand what makes them tick. In
- > Germany, it certainly is not the fond remembrance of Friedrich or
- > of Bismarck.
- > Yours,
- > Andreas Kuenne
- > Historisches Seminar
- > Universitaet Hamburg
- > Von-Melle-Park 6 /IX
- > D-2000 Hamburg 13
- > EMAIL: fh10220@dhhuni4.bitnet
- > Phone: +49 40 4123-2585 +49 40 491 42 22 (priv)
-
- Andreas, the only reason this is not a flaming personal response is because
- you evidently don't see where I got my info from. You see, the American
- media is painting your recent troubles as being just as bad as the Night of
- Long Knives (I think that's what it was called, but since I'm an American-
- educated person, I could be wrong). If that were the case, then PERHAPS there
- would be a problem that would require INTERNATIONAL (I never implied that
- the U.S. should drive in, guns blazing) assistance. I won't apologize, but I'll
- admit that I was wrong; you guys apparently have it under control. As to my
- affection for wargaming and Friedrich, piss off. I never thought that the parts
- of German culture that I find most interesting would be the driving force
- behind the daily lives of the German people.
-
- Jim Causey
- j_causey@ccnode.colorado.edu
-
- My apologies to the rest of the net, but that had to be said.
-