Heidegger

In article , GEVANS613 at aol.com writes
>
>’All but a small minority of professors quickly adopted Nazi ideology
>for career advancement and power and eagerly collaborated to
>intellectually justify the mass murder of Jews, Gypsies and the
>mentally and physically disabled. In 1933, the year Hitler seized
>power, 1,000 leading German professors signed a public vow to support
>him and the Nazi regime. (72) They provided Nazism with an
>intellectual fig leaf with which to cover its project of naked
>barbarism, as did the renowned philosopher Martin Heidegger, rector of
>Freiburg University

Hitler did not seize power. He was voted into power and that was 1933.

>From ‘The Jewish factor in British war crimes policy in 1942′ by
John P. Fox, English Historical Review no.362 (The quote within the
quote is from Karl A. Schleunes, ‘The Twisted Road to Auschwitz,
Nazi Policy towards German Jews 1933 - 1939′.)

“..it had been German policy in 1938 and 1939 to facilitate and
promote Jewish emigration, and even during 1940 there was talk of
sending the Jews to Madagascar, the war changed everything: ‘an
emigration policy which had not been able to keep pace with
Hitler’s peacetime acquisitions fell apart almost completely with
the outbreak of war’. Thereafter, mass extermination as an
alternative means of dealing with the Jewish ‘problem’ emerged
slowly and tentatively in German policy,..”

–
Philip Baker

Posted on Saturday, November 25th, 2006 at 3:05 am
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