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

Michael Renjie Tom (renjie@uclink2.berkeley.edu)
Wed, 23 Oct 1996 01:12:06 -0700 (PDT)

d-oh, lost a line somehow.

> 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
trials of, there was a play that was written and performed in Berlin
> 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
> >
>
>