XPost: alt.tv.star-trek.tos, rec.arts.sf.tv, rec.arts.tv   
   From: David@block.net   
      
   On 11/16/2011 1:11 PM, Ken Wesson wrote:   
   > On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:09:53 -0500, Ubiquitous wrote:   
   >   
   >> "Star Trek's 'Nazi Episode' Aired for First Time in Germany"   
   >> 	--headline, Jerusalem Post website, Nov. 7   
   >   
   > Would that be "The City at the Edge of Forever" or "Patterns of Force"?   
      
   Patterns of Force.  S   
      
   >   
   > I don't seem to recall that either of them glorified Nazism or portrayed   
   > them in a positive light. The latter did have someone think that their   
   > ideas on state industry cooperation and efficiency would be a good idea,   
   > but that someone's subsequent prime directive violation backfired in a   
   > big way, so the episode as a whole clearly suggests that anything even   
   > similar is a slippery slope with drastically bad eventual consequences.   
   >   
   > If Germany's banned portraying them at all, even in a realistic and/or   
   > negative light, then someone ought to remind whoever's in charge over   
   > there that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.   
      
   Uh...that was a law imposed during the Allied occupation.  They've just   
   been slow to abandon it because of the possible reactions from neighbours.   
      
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