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To: KAESNO2


The lesson of the Third Reich is that most Nazis were NOT sociopaths, but ordinary men who reverted to their most base level because for a few years they lived in a state where the normal rules of morality were lifted. Nearly all of us would have done the same thing. Like it or not, it’s human nature. Civilization is but a thin veneer that disguises our evil side. See “Lord of the Flies.”

What you wrote is so damn foolish, it really doesn't merit a reply. It's bilge.


54 posted on 01/26/2014 5:25:16 PM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: onyx

>>What you wrote is so damn foolish, it really doesn’t merit a reply. It’s bilge.<<

You ought to educate yourself. First read about the Milgram experiments in the early ‘60s at Stanford. Then read “Ordinary Men,” about the pudgy, middle-aged, mail carriers and so forth who made up the Einsatzgruppen:

“The shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews.”

“Shocking as it is, this book gives evidence to suggest the opposite conclusion: that the sad-sack German draftees who perpetrated much of the Holocaust were not expressing some uniquely Germanic evil, but that they were average men comparable to the run of humanity, twisted by historical forces into inhuman shapes. Browning, a thorough historian who lets no one off the moral hook, interviewed hundreds of the killers, who simply could not explain how they had sunken into savagery under Hitler.”

http://www.amazon.com/Ordinary-Men-Reserve-Battalion-Solution/dp/0060995068


75 posted on 01/26/2014 8:03:48 PM PST by KAESNO2
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