Will the real Nazis stand up, please! Art

Here is something that I recieved that seems to be making the rounds. It isn't new but I am glad that people are starting to put what is happening in the U.S. today into some historical perspective..................PEACE....................Scott

From: Art Woodstone

Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 5:33 AM

Subject: Will the real Nazis stand up, please! Art

DEAR FRIENDS AND FAMILY, I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO CALL THIS. MAYBE THE WIT AND WISDOM OF HERMANN GOERING OR, TRUTH -AND- VERY- NEARLY- THE- LAST- WORDS OF A NAZI (GOERING COMMITTED SUICIDE NOT LONG AFTER).

I FAVOR THIS ONE, HOWEVER, because Rumsfeld and Cheney are now using that label an awful lot:
IT TAKES A NAZI TO KNOW A NAZI.

None of the words below are mine:

The following comes from a post-World War II interview between Gustave Gilbert, a German-speaking intelligence officer and psychologist who was allowed by the Allies to speak with Nazi POWs, and Hermann Goering, the Nazi Reichsmarshall. Their conversation took place on April 18, 1946, during a break in the Nuremberg trials, and was recounted in Gilbert's book, Nuremberg Diary:

We got around to the subject of war again and I said that, contrary to his attitude, I did not think that the common people are very thankful for leaders who bring them war and destruction. "Why, of course, the 'people' don't want war," Goering shrugged. "Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship."

"There is one difference," I pointed out. "In a democracy the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars."

"Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."