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Also What About European Anti-Semitism, Rabid Nationalism, the Treaty of Versailles, Deliberate Humiliations, the World-Wide Depression, and Hitler's Charismatic Insanity?
RECEIVED Fri., May 27, 2005
Dear Editor,
Mr. Sexton's letter this week noted, "That the leadership in Germany and Japan were emboldened by that [peace] movement is undisputed. It more than likely accounted for the failure to put an end to Hitler while he was still relatively weak. So an argument can be made that the ‘peace advocates,’ sincere though they may have been, contributed greatly to the catastrophic blood bath we call World War II and even to the Holocaust" ["Postmarks," May 27].
I wonder if Mr. Sexton knows whether so many leading American industrialists (including the Bushes, the Fords, the Kennedys, and the Hughes families) who lent both economic and spiritual support to Hitler might be considered more of a contribution to the Nazis’ continued rise than U.S. peace protesters.
Similarly, I wonder if Mr. Sexton has any thoughts about the S.S. St. Louis, a ship with 937 Jews that was turned away from docking by our government in 1939 thereby sending those men, women, and children back to die in the death camps might also have been taken as a sign of encouragement by Heir Hitler in a more profound way than some peaceniks?
Mr. Sexton's letter this week noted, "That the leadership in Germany and Japan were emboldened by that [peace] movement is undisputed. It more than likely accounted for the failure to put an end to Hitler while he was still relatively weak. So an argument can be made that the ‘peace advocates,’ sincere though they may have been, contributed greatly to the catastrophic blood bath we call World War II and even to the Holocaust" ["Postmarks," May 27].
I wonder if Mr. Sexton knows whether so many leading American industrialists (including the Bushes, the Fords, the Kennedys, and the Hughes families) who lent both economic and spiritual support to Hitler might be considered more of a contribution to the Nazis’ continued rise than U.S. peace protesters.
Similarly, I wonder if Mr. Sexton has any thoughts about the S.S. St. Louis, a ship with 937 Jews that was turned away from docking by our government in 1939 thereby sending those men, women, and children back to die in the death camps might also have been taken as a sign of encouragement by Heir Hitler in a more profound way than some peaceniks?
Just asking,
Ron Deutsch
Ron Deutsch
