I don't understand why some people feel the need to whitewash Hitler's Third Reich. Of course he was a human being. That's part of the horror of his rise and fall, the fact that most anyone is capable of dehumanizing his perceived enemies. It's what we need to do if there's any sort of conscience at all or if we need to create "plausible deniability."
They need to read William Shirer's book, at least.
They're white washing it because they are trying to renormalize the violence. That, and it's a troll on the Marxists and Communists, that are happy to do much the same to their asserted bourgeoise, but not go to the mechanized effort that the Germans specifically decided to go with.
Very well-put, as usual.
I don't understand why some people feel the need to whitewash Hitler's Third Reich. Of course he was a human being. That's part of the horror of his rise and fall, the fact that most anyone is capable of dehumanizing his perceived enemies. It's what we need to do if there's any sort of conscience at all or if we need to create "plausible deniability."
They need to read William Shirer's book, at least.
They're white washing it because they are trying to renormalize the violence. That, and it's a troll on the Marxists and Communists, that are happy to do much the same to their asserted bourgeoise, but not go to the mechanized effort that the Germans specifically decided to go with.