33. "RE: Understood" In response to In response to 25 Mon Oct-27-03 11:18 AM
>>all i wanted to say was that a lot of people around here >>toss around the 'european' term as if people in the 14th and >>15th century thought of themselves in that way. they didnt. > >I don't agree. Why didn't the Germans rise up to stop >Hitler? In general, regular folk's morale was so low and I >am sure many (not all) secretely hoped that Hitler would >succeed and bring the country back into the game as a world >power after WWI.
What does that have to do with 15th century European peasants and whether or not they had a world-view of themselves as superior "Europeans" destined to conquer the world?
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