Re: [OT] Not TACO anymore?

On Sun, 22 Jun 2025 20:49:56 -0000 (UTC), Thomas Koenig
<tkoenig@netcologne.de> wrote:

Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> schrieb:

On Sun, 22 Jun 2025 08:44:01 -0000 (UTC), Thomas Koenig
<tkoenig@netcologne.de> wrote:
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Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> schrieb:

WolfFan  <akwolffan@zoho.com> wrote:

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Kratman is insane. Literally. He thought up a Jewish Waffen SS Division in
one of the collaborations with Ringo. It was the first, and last, of his work
that I read. And the last Ringo.

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Indeed.  He does know military operations very well from the ground but with
no real understanding of the picture behind them.  This is a problem.
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Also, the "I Was A Jew In the SS" theme had already been covered
pretty effectively by Mel Brooks.  It is not to be taken seriously.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Jewish_military_personnel_of_World_War_II

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Mischlinge. IIRC, people of mixed Jewish/German ancestry were allowed
to remain in place until they could be replaced with pure Germans.
Unlike Trump, Adolf & friends recognized economically essential people
when they saw them.

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They did not, or they would not have gutted Germany's scientific
community by removing the Jews from their positions in academia
and industry in the early years of the Third Reich.

They weren't Mischlinge.

But you are correct: the article I (vaguely) remember was talking
about bureaucrats and similar positions -- not at the top, but with
necessary work to do.

Tax collectors. Postal workers. Staff officers. The stuff modern
states run on.

Not pointy-headed scientists and intellectuals.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"