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Wednesday, 8 December 04 :: as far as i'm concerned.

found this handy quote today. guess where?

"As far as I was concerned, what was right for the government was right for me, and I had no right to any kind of personal thoughts, opinions or feelings. Rather I had the duty to obey, without argument, orders from above,

(click more to read the rest.. but before you do, this sounds like something i've heard on mainstream tv, from the soldiers fighting our wars, from condeleeza rice...)

and if those orders meant the gasing of millions of Jews, then I was willing to collaborate. Which is why, believe me, I could not allow myself even the slightest weakness over mothers or children. When I saw the littlest ones going into the bunker [gas chambers], all I could think was: There's a few less Jewish brats; there are some kids who will never become repellent adult Jews." - Helga Schneider's mother, an SS officer who worked at Auschwitz-Birkenau and Ravensbruck, from "Let Me Go" by Helga Schneider.

posted by brooke at December 8, 2004 02:06 PM

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i'm brooke, born in '73. i am currently a phd student in instructional technology. this is the blog where i capture all the neurotic, and the few non-neurotic, moments that seem to come with being a phd student (if you want to read less neuroses and more professionalism go to: oer's, dl's, reuse and culture: it's about a phd student researching digital resources in a multicultural world). i have been from eugene, oregon for a long time.. 8 years specifically (its my home now, but i grew up in southwestern virginia), but now i'm here in logan, utah at utah state university. after finding my roots in eugene i never could have expected that i would leave that liberal oasis and head to utah. but i did and there are days when its a blessing and days when i'm tempted to go back to oregon and beg the folks at lost valley educational center to let me move in. but i won't leave because there are days when this process is better than any kind of high i could ever imagine. what else? i collect things, i have 2 cats, 2 kayaks, 2 laptops (i'm a geek - one mac, one pc). i can be emailed at brookesblog@rivervision.com.