Re: [OT] Not TACO anymore?

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

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

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They weren't Mischlinge.
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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.
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Tax collectors. Postal workers. Staff officers. The stuff modern
states run on.
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Not pointy-headed scientists and intellectuals.

Carl Bosch (former head of BASF and member of the board of IG
Farben, him of the Haber-Bosch process) had warned Hitler in a
personal meeting that the removal of Jewish scientists would set
back chemistry and physics in Germany by 100 years.  Hitler then
said that, in this case, Germany would do without chemistry and
physics for 100 years, and threw him out.  Bosch later dragged
his feet on firing Jewish employees, as demanded by the Nazis,
until 1937.