Posted on 06/24/2002 11:16:57 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:54:55 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Viewing the Nazi leaders on trial at Nuremberg, George Orwell wrote: "Somehow the punishment of these monsters ceases to seem attractive when it becomes possible; indeed, once under lock and key, they almost cease to be monsters."
In a sense, William F. Buckley Jr.'s latest novel, "Nuremberg: The Reckoning," has de-monstered the major German war criminals who went on trial at Nuremberg between 1945 and 1946 without de-monstering their criminality. In Nuremberg, the ancient city where Adolf Hitler once held his lynch-mob rallies, there were in 1945 no Holocaust deniers. What had happened to 6 million European Jews was a fact. Looking at the 24 top Nazi leaders, some in military uniform, in the courtroom sitting in two rows, raised an unanswerable question: How could they have done what they did? Soldiers killing soldiers, well, yes, but soldiers killing babies in their mother's arms, how was it possible? And yet, we're seeing similar horrors again with the suicide bombers in beleaguered Israel.
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...and another 7 million (or so) assorted Communists, Gypsies, homosexuals, criminals, mentally retarded, etc.
...and another 7 million (or so) assorted Communists, Gypsies, homosexuals, criminals, mentally retarded, etc.
And add to that, the next generation of Nazi's pursuing the murder and death of the Jews in our own time.
Hitler died less than 60 years ago...many of his devotees raised children of their own brainwashed in the vision of the Third Reich. What's to say that the current Taliban/Muslem hatred isn't exactly what happened to Germany? These people are just as much the victims of mass-brainwashing/conditioning as Germany's people were in the 30's and 40's, and it's very possible that the Master Hypnotists are the next generation of Nazi's from Hitler's time!
Hitler's evil may very well live on...
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