Re: Common Sense against nonsense: the recent debate on ranks

Michael Renjie Tom (renjie@uclink2.berkeley.edu)
Wed, 23 Oct 1996 00:04:58 -0700 (PDT)

mmmmm..... I would debate the use of the term "clean" primarily because
of a comment that Primo Levi wrote which I quote verbatim "The innocent
are all dead. Only the guilty remain" A few years after the Nuremberg
which confronted this idea ignorance to the Jewish plight. In summary,
the high commanders knew, the camp kapow knew, the people who watched them
placed into cattle cars knew, the people who watched Jews carted from the
ghettos on wheelbarrows knew... ...
mike

On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, Reinhard-Siegfried wrote:

> Friends,
>
> Be careful! The SS and the German army are DIFFERENT things. The SS
> were part of the Nazi party. The army weren't. Rommel belonged to the
> army but not to the SS. Therefore he was "clean" and respected. So don't
> compare the names of the ranks in the SS and those of the army. They are
> different. In fact, "colonel-general" is a rank between general and
> marshal. In the beginning of Logh proper, Reinhard is a
> colonel-general. Later, in Season 2, Oberstein, Reuental, Mittermeyer
> are colonel-generals. I hope you get what I mean by the term
> "colonel-general".
>
> As far as the "porn" thing I mentioned before is concerned, what I feel
> uncomfortable is that Mr. Tanaka made so clear that they are going to do
> something, though he stop at that point. I can still accept it as
> necessity in the story. I am just interested in the
> question: How does anime treat that part so that anyone know what
> happens without seeing it? It's important because Hildegarde is going to
> be pregnant!
>
> Reinhard-Siegfried
>