Hello Norm,
I have met stupid professors before.
lol - I agree - While at University some of my Professors would have referred to me as ‘stupid’, but I have had my vengeance since. They called me ‘stupid’ for four years, I got to call them ‘stupid’ for the rest of my life. Ain’t life sweet! The source of the information in the "Mother of the Fatherland" book is quite evidently lifted from the Watchtower from 1950, which said:
Actually, to do her justice, Claudia Koonz cites Gitta Sereny’s book - ‘Into that Darkness - From Mercy Killing To Mass Murder’ as source material for her quotation. This of course in not terrible important compared to the WTS forty-year project in producing accurate figures for the martyrdom of its own adherents. The lives laid down were arguably unnecessary sacrifices, but what is more distressing is the fact that they are continually and excessively used by the WTS as PR to its own ‘marketing’ ends. This brings dignity to no martyr, but actually diminishes the value of heroes, who for whatever cause faced the Nazis with courage.Best regards -- HS