Sunday, February 06, 2005
RIP
Max Schmeling has died. His obit is worth reading. I have been reading a lot about Germany recently. During the Nazi years there was a small group that resisted. Peter Drucker's excellent autobiography has a few pages describing these resistors who were fundamentally decent Prussian Lutherans. I am willing to bet that Schmelling falls into that category.
These people were not representative of Germany, and they were completely overwhelmed by the Nazi movement. But they are worth studying. We need to know more about the struggle of common decency in the face of tyranny. Especially when decency fails.
These people were not representative of Germany, and they were completely overwhelmed by the Nazi movement. But they are worth studying. We need to know more about the struggle of common decency in the face of tyranny. Especially when decency fails.
