[killjoy]

Dr Nathan Abrams, a modern history lecturer at Aberdeen University, said: "As a Jewish historian, I’m personally in favour of anything which humanises the history of the Third Reich because it demystifies what happened. There’s this notion that the Nazis were some kind of inhuman personification of evil, but the fact is that the atrocities of the Holocaust were carried out by very ordinary people. In some ways, the more we realise that these were people like us, who wore slippers and read all kinds of books, the better we can be aware of the whole horrific reality."

That is worth repeating.

[okie01]

That is worth repeating.

It is the major premise of Albert Speer's "Inside The Third Reich".

Speer was first Hitler's architect, then his armaments czar. He was at Der Fuehrer's side throughout the war. To his death, he never quite understood what came over him that he should have contributed to so much evil. Or that the famously sane Germans had undertaken to go collectively insane.

When it was happening, everybody and everything had seemed so...normal.

His book is a warning to other societies about the "normalcy of evil".

[Reconray]

amen

[Mind-numbed Robot]

That is worth repeating.

And you did. :-)

[hershey]

Worth repeating and sets down in black and white the horrible truth that Nazis were ordinary people. Evil comes in many guises, even as the butcher, baker, or candlestick maker.