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Re: CHAT: Support/Oppression of Conlanging

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Wednesday, June 19, 2002, 22:11
Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> Of course not, he sent everyone to Germany. Why build expensive ovens when > facilities exist already somewhere else? As for not killing anyone yet, the > intention to kill is enough. And it was present in both stalinism and nazism.
In fact only about 10-15% of all Italian Jews were sent to concentration/ extermination camps, and virtually all of those after Mussolini's death. Italy, like Denmark and Bulgaria, systematically resisted German pressure to imprison or export their Jews -- not openly, as the Danes did, but for the most part by misinterpreting or ignoring German orders. Catholic priests, army officers, Fascist party members, and ordinary citizens all did their bit. Indeed, before the war the number of Jews in the Fascist party was essentially proportional to their number in the Italian population as a whole. This changed only in 1938 when Mussolini passed anti-Semitic legislation at German insistence. -- John Cowan <jcowan@...> http://www.reutershealth.com I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_