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Re: Prins Claus von Amsberg - RIP
Posted by:
Volker Erich Kummrow
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Date: October 08, 2002 02:03PM
<HTML>Hello Dietzsch,
thank you for both answers, the English and the German one. Indeed it was my intention on the German section to point to the fact, that between black and white are all kinds of shades of gray without trying to whitewash these most terrible crimes committed by German Nazis in the name of Germany I not necessarily feel guilty of as a postwar Germann but liable those terrible things never happen again in and by my country.
As to Prince Claus I'll take a copy of your post to my Dutch Lady and see what her response is going to be and let you know. She'll probably, as a staunch republican, agree basically as to what you have written but not be converterted to roaylist. As a liberal I don't really care on way or the other, as long as a monarchy or presidential leadership is embetted in a governmental system of political check and balance, acting as such in forms of first chamber and second plus an independent judiciary thus making sure the executive branch of the country is not running out of controll.
I certainly agree with you that these history buffs about U-boat-war know a lot more about the subject than I do, also as somebody just being interested in history but not as a professional, and would never argue any facts but chat with them about the historical interpretations and dimensiones in the course of the timeframe being discussed in this Forum. Just wait what might happen here when the different oppinions about PADFIELDS recent book about DÖNITZ start pooring in, some kind of "hell" might brake loose.
Sincerely Yours
Volker Erich Kummrow</HTML>
thank you for both answers, the English and the German one. Indeed it was my intention on the German section to point to the fact, that between black and white are all kinds of shades of gray without trying to whitewash these most terrible crimes committed by German Nazis in the name of Germany I not necessarily feel guilty of as a postwar Germann but liable those terrible things never happen again in and by my country.
As to Prince Claus I'll take a copy of your post to my Dutch Lady and see what her response is going to be and let you know. She'll probably, as a staunch republican, agree basically as to what you have written but not be converterted to roaylist. As a liberal I don't really care on way or the other, as long as a monarchy or presidential leadership is embetted in a governmental system of political check and balance, acting as such in forms of first chamber and second plus an independent judiciary thus making sure the executive branch of the country is not running out of controll.
I certainly agree with you that these history buffs about U-boat-war know a lot more about the subject than I do, also as somebody just being interested in history but not as a professional, and would never argue any facts but chat with them about the historical interpretations and dimensiones in the course of the timeframe being discussed in this Forum. Just wait what might happen here when the different oppinions about PADFIELDS recent book about DÖNITZ start pooring in, some kind of "hell" might brake loose.
Sincerely Yours
Volker Erich Kummrow</HTML>