Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Bookclub Meeting

Just a quick post about yesterday's bookclub meeting with author Irmgard Hunt of "On Hitler's Mountain."
It was fantastic!!! She was so nice, engaging and personable - we had a wonderful time. Actually we went over the hour time limit by half an hour and only finished because someone else was coming in to use the conference room.
It is amazing how much more you get out of a book when you get to talk to the author - we really delved into Germany after the war, the collective guilt of a people, how future generations handle such a legacy, the parrallels between 1930's Germany and current day America - Ms. Hunt started the session with a quote from Hitler's book, Mein Kampf, (which she said if more Germans had read properly they might not have gone to war and realized what a loon Hitler was) I'm paraphrasing here "the masses need to be lead through propoganda, a few simple slogans to rally behind, the masses are too stupid to know otherwise. They must be lead, controlled."
Ms. Hunt is an ardent pacifist and after one reads her account of her childhood in Nazi Germany, as a member of the Hitler Youth (her dad even taught her how to say "Heil Hitler" properly in front of a picture of Hitler on their wall), it gives one hope that change can happen. For a little girl so indoctronated to awaken from the war and see the error in this thinking.... maybe there is some light at the end of this tunnel in America.

As one bookclub member said "this was our best bookclub session hands down!"

ps - I tried to put a link on this post to Barnes & Nobles site, if you wanted to read more about the book, but I'm having difficulty with the template. Gotta go home and ask my sister.
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=mZ1F3mqB0c&isbn=0060532173&itm=1

6 Comments:

Blogger Tony said...

Sounds like a book for me to check out!! Glad you liked it and had fun at the meeting.

3:22 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Great that it ws a successful meeting. Especially if it was the best one so far.

That Hitler era is, i think, one of the scariest periods in our recent history.

I dread to think what the world would be like today, had he succeeded in his mad mission.

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