How is a "Gen Lee High School" any different from a "Heinrik Himmler High School"?

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50. The west did. The east did so in name only

Even in the west, some lower level Nazis managed to slip back into positions of responsibility (Filbinger, for example). The east, of course, copied the Gestapo with their Stasi, right down to their dreaded "secret" prisons and execution courtyards, their soldiers doing Nazi style goose-stepping, and their copying of the Nazi military uniform except for the helmet. I visited there often enough, spoke both German and Russian. VERY creepy place.

Don't compare the USA of the 1990s to anything like East Germany unless you also speak German and Russian (I do) and made a few visits to East Germany to friends who lived there (I did). You can't imagine what a place like that is without actually having visited. More than once, on the way back, they would pick out Westerners they observed speaking German (like me), and I spent more than one afternoon in cold interrogation rooms where I was the only without a gun, an East German uniform, or the right to stand up without permission.

By the way, Newt Gingrich is anything but a son of the South. He is an opportunist from Pennsylvania, now living in the Washington DC suburbs trying to peddle his scams to the unthinking. Georgia was a pit stop for him--a useful one, granted, but not any place he ever settled in. He hates Bill's guts, and the feeling is close to mutual.