Noelle pls read all my mails.  I happen to know many people with numbers tattoed on their arms.  I tell you a story.  My first job as a Travel Agent was as a Junior Manager at one of the most import Travel Agencies in Buenos Aires in that time.  His original owner, a jewish gentleman from Leipzig who was the in his eighties, told me many times how he & other jewish people in Buenos Aires had created the Agency in the early forties as a means to facilitate the exit of jews trapped in war-torn Europe. They did a fantastic job & saved many lives.  Most of the survivors became our clients & then I was able to learn about their harrowing experiences.  These men & women were forever grateful for the way they were welcome in Argentina. As I said before this is the second biggest jewish community in the world. A Nazi country welcoming the victims??? That would be a contradiction in terms, right??? I am amazed to see your reaction, because if I am allowed to give you some pointers I may be able to jog your collective memories:  do the words Hiroshima/Nagasaki/Mylai/Saigon/Napalm/Guantanamo/School of the Americas/Plan Condor/collateral damages/civilians killed by friendly fire/contractors with license to kill/Baghdad/Basra/Kabul/weapons of mass destruction, resonate with you??? Do you feel free to attack an argentine citizen who was not even born at the time of the supposed arrival of millions of Nazis in my country before giving me an estimate of the number of people killed by the american armed forces & during special intelligence operations since WWII.  Do you ever think of them??? Do you believe that your form of democracy should be exported by force?? That’s what I meant by silly , how could this Belinda woman spoke so freely about our past mistakes being a citizen of the US who happens to be one of the countries who disregard human rights with impunity, one of the biggest offenders when we speak of human rights.  I think you have lost your sense of proportion.  And if the Nazis interest you so much, do me a favour google up Nazis in Chile/Colonia Dignidad/ Nazis in Paraguay/Colonia Tovar the info may help you .

Let me add that I hold a degree in Political Science & International Relations , have travelled all over the world, was married to a Brit naturalized american & lived in New York City for many years. I admire your country, it is in fact my favourite place to live & consider the USA the best democracy humanity was able to produce, but innocent you are not.  

Appreciate your thoughts, but beg to differ.  Please. google up "lefevre/lefevristes" & you will probably understand better who is Bishop W/why excommunion is not a matter of political opinion according to the tenets of the Roman Catholic Church.

I want to make myself clear, I am a lapsed Catholic , so I am in no way defending the institution but I like to read informed opinions no hearsay.  Pope Ratzinger is no Tayllerand in the diplomacy depatment, his "faux pas" are many but matters of dogma & politics should not be confused.

As for Argentina, I know only too well the extent of our sins in the Human Rights field.  I came of age in the seventies, lost many a friend during the "lead years" & suffered the blunders of most of the administrations, I am samrting right now because at the moment we are loosing our republican institurions or what is left of them.  Haven’t seen any Nazis lately but you surely appreciate the irony of fate when I tell you that one of the most admired leaders of us, the ones pro-democracy is a Rabbi, Rabbi Bergman whose brilliant intellect is a beacon for us all in this critical moment in our history.  Hope you pray for us-

That’s such a silly thing to say.  Probably you ignore that the second biggest jewish community in the world lives in Argentina (the first being the one in the USA) & they have been thoroughly integrated in our society.  Then, please remember that the Nazi episode you mention happened over 60 years ago during the first administration of Juan Peron, a dictator with totalitarian leanings, not even during those dark times were the argentine jews in any kind of danger.  This is a free society where catholics/jews/muslims & even lefevristes live side by side.  And those famous Nazis were only a few & already dead.

We have very big problems but cleaning up a supposed Nazi image is way beyond my comprehension. 

I already did Marjorie, the present administration has other problems now & needed badly something huge to hide the real problems.  They could not care less about what the Bishop W says about the holocaust, a famous member of this administration aired the same views in public & nothing happened.  Besides, the Administration & the Catholic Church  have been at odds for the last six years, probably the lowest point in our history.