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killed, 85% of Italian Jews survived, and attributes it to no
tradition anti-semitism and contempt for governmental authority -
and anti-semitism was by decree.
41. The Rape of Nanking (Chicago: Innovative Publishing Group,
2nd edition, 1997; also see Iris Chang, Rape of Nanking: The
Forgotten Holocaust of World War II, Basic Books, 1997)
42. September 1990
43. Published in 1996. The figures are from p. 272.
44. The "Great East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere".
45. China was high on culture. low economically; Japan has the
opposite profile, relatively speaking. This can be a formula for
complementarity and cooperation. but seems rather to indicate
mutual hatred and aggression in search of a issue.
46. In Germany this latter point, to have been born too late to
have participated in any atrocities, is referred to as "the grace
of the late birth", die Gnade der sp„ten Geburt.
47. On the other hand, when hitch-hiking in a very war-torn
Germany summer 1949, and invited to stay some days with the
parents of a school class celebrating high school exam, most of
them former Nazis, they had no words of praise for the N rnberg
Tribunal because they were relieved of collective guilt. The
tribunal focused on a very limited number and put the guilt to
rest right there.
48. Like the famous O. J. Simpson case in Los Angeles, USA.
49. This will be an elaboration of Scenario 6 in Chapter 3 above.
50. The most famous examples would probably be the white-black
lynching cases in the Southern part of the USA; but US lynching
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