Professor Franz A. P. Frisch, Doctor of Technical Sciences (awarded by Univ. of Vienna, Austria), has taught at M.I.T., Virginia Tech, Central Mich. Univ. before retiring as Professor Emeritus of Engineering Management at the Defense Ssytem Management College at Fort Belvoir, VA. Prior to entering academia, Professor Frisch was Private Frisch of the German Army (1938-1945). He served as a panzer artilleryman throughout the war and fought in Poland, France, Soviet Union, Sicily and finally Italy where he was about to be executed by Italian Partisans. Luckily for him, he was rescued by an Afro-American sergeant who, claiming Frisch and his cohorts as POWs, pummeled the partisan leader.
In his book, Condemned to Live: A Panzer Artilleryman's Five-Front War, Frisch commented about America, his adopted country:
"I am today most concerned about the potential danger we Americans face in losing our freedoms. Look at General Colin Powell several years ago, as an example. He was invited to speak at Harvard University. People protested his position on gays and lesbians in the military and interrupted him without respect for him or his position. If we continue this way, in the end nobody will be allowed to speak anymore in public, for everybody offends somebody. One guy may be too religious, the other may be too liberal for some. You name it. "Political correctness," as it is called, will curtail free speech, free thought, free expression, leaving it up to the state to decide in court or administrative judgment whether the First Amendment rights no longer apply. It means we may reach the point where we say, "Yes sir, Heil Hitler." And this is what makes my spine tingle - I have been through this. Now the good thing is we in the United States don't have one unified force, a universal political philosophy, as we had under Hitler and the Nazis. Maybe this lack of uniformity will avoid a castrophe. I hope so." (Second paragraph, Page 138.)
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Vigilantibus et non dormientibus jura subveniunt
In his book, Condemned to Live: A Panzer Artilleryman's Five-Front War, Frisch commented about America, his adopted country:
"I am today most concerned about the potential danger we Americans face in losing our freedoms. Look at General Colin Powell several years ago, as an example. He was invited to speak at Harvard University. People protested his position on gays and lesbians in the military and interrupted him without respect for him or his position. If we continue this way, in the end nobody will be allowed to speak anymore in public, for everybody offends somebody. One guy may be too religious, the other may be too liberal for some. You name it. "Political correctness," as it is called, will curtail free speech, free thought, free expression, leaving it up to the state to decide in court or administrative judgment whether the First Amendment rights no longer apply. It means we may reach the point where we say, "Yes sir, Heil Hitler." And this is what makes my spine tingle - I have been through this. Now the good thing is we in the United States don't have one unified force, a universal political philosophy, as we had under Hitler and the Nazis. Maybe this lack of uniformity will avoid a castrophe. I hope so." (Second paragraph, Page 138.)
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Vigilantibus et non dormientibus jura subveniunt
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