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["Craven, Jim" <jcraven@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mark L. wrote:

This technique was the same proposed by the early workingclass land
reformers.
REAL direct legislation.  All the best to it.

Best,
Mark
> http://www.chgs.umn.edu under "Histories, Documents and Narratives".


Response: Thanks Mark, do you have any references to read about these land
reformers? Any would be appreciated. Also, I just got a book and could not
put it down, called "The Politics of Memory: The Journey of a Holocaust
Historian" by Raul Hilberg (author of the controversial "The Destruction of
the European Jews"). It was fascinating reading (he initially did his PhD
work under Franz Neumann who wrote "Behemoth: The Structure and Practice of
National Socialism").

>From Hilberg's book:
"After he had read my trial run of two hundred pages, he [Neumann] objected
to only one passage in the conclusion. It was my statement that
administratively the Germans had relied on the Jews to follow directives,
that the Jews had cooperated in their own destruction. Neumann did not say
that this finding was contradicted by any facts; he did not say that it was
underresearched. He said, 'This is too much to take--cut it out.' I deleted
the passage, silently determined to restore it to my larger work. Then I
said to him that the civil service was only part of the story. I would have
to add the military, industry and the party. Neumann nodded for a third
time. Would he, I asked, sponsor me for a doctoral dissertation entitled
'The Destruction of the European Jews?' I was prepared to hand him a tightly
constructed twenty-page outline. Neumann said yes, but he knew that at this
moment I was separating myself from the mainstream of academic research to
tread in territory that had been avoided by the academic world and the
public alike. What he said to me in three words was, 'It's your funeral.' "
(p 66)


Also, there is "How Democratic is the American Constitution?" by Robert
Dahl; and, "Explaining Hitler" and "The Secret Parts of Fortune" both by Ron
Rosenbaum (some interesting stuff in them).

Jim C

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