“Can you imagine a “respectable” newspaper giving Heinrich Himmler’s daughter a platform to sniffle over her darling papa’s domestic habits?”
Truth is always stranger than fiction. Himmler’s daughter Gudrun is 88 years old and an unrepentant Nazi to this very day. She defends her father and Hitler as kindly and likeable to those around them.
A colleague told me a story about a German Scientist who worked in the U.S. space program after the war.
The scientist wore a fine, well made long overcoat.
The colleague mentioned something about Hitler, and the scientist responded with “Der Furer himself gave me this coat. He was a great man.”
Most men who achieve great evil are good to the people around them. They know how to charm and inspire loyalty.
Stalin and Kim Jong-un are exceptions, but I expect even they have proponents who extol their virtues.
Comic-character villains are rare.
Not at all