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...Nazi atrocities as well. Like the denazification program itself, FitzGibbon starts from that consensus, and with the feeling that at the time "it would not have been possible, either psychologically or politically, simply to ignore the monstrous crimes committed in the name of the Third Reich." How just or justified the Allied judgment was seems to FitzGibbon far less clear. "Theologically," he observes, " 'collective guilt' must be a meaningless term since there is no such thing as 'collective soul.'" He adds: "Legally, it makes more sense: accomplices are also found guilty in courts...
...Denazification, FitzGibbon, who served as an intelligence officer in Europe during World War II, has dug up the corpse of the "1,000-year Reich" and considers how Kiesinger's Germany could have risen from its grave-a Babbitt out of Buchenwald. He discusses Allied punishment of war crimes, which was limited to a handful of the worst offenders. But his main concern, as the title implies, is denazification, the broader program of combined punishment and re-education variously applied to hundreds of thousands of Germans by the occupying powers. His book raises questions of conscience which, though they...
...mouth an unpleasant sentence I never wrote (the author of that sentence is clearly designated in my piece as the Times Literary Supplement). But the extraordinary achievement was to quote Vidal's charges against me, in particular that my views are those of the founders of the Third Reich, which, were it so, would, among other things, impeach the professional resources of TIME magazine for not having discovered this signal piece of intelligence in the course of preparing a cover story on me. I write to you because I care what you believe, and because, in the same issue...
Vidal says he did not mean to link Buckley to "Hitler's foreign and domestic ventures." But he insists that Buckley's views "are very much those of the founders of the Third Reich who regarded blacks as inferiors, undeclared war as legitimate foreign policy and the Jews as sympathetic to international Communism...
Seeded first for the match is Dave Sawyier, followed by Jeff Reich, Ed Devereaux, captain Dave Fish, Art Brisbane and Clint Stephens. Fish and Devereaux will play in the number one doubles, Sawyier and Stephens will play number two, and Brisbane and Wilkenson will play number three...