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  • Inside The Heart Of Darkness (Jonah Goldhagen's Reflections On Auschwitz's Meaning For Today)

    01/25/2005 12:55:58 AM PST · by goldstategop · 6 replies · 957+ views
    Los Angeles Times ^ | 01/24/05 | Jonah Goldhagen
    Certain aspects of this past are still all but misunderstood, most important the critical question: What was the nature of Nazism? It was not just another fascist or totalitarian movement. The Nazis' destructiveness was not like that of other dictatorial or murderous regimes. True, for Hitler and his followers, Jews were an enemy before all others, the principal source of evil in the world. But the Nazis' destructiveness was of global scope. They sought to lay waste to Western civilization itself — Christianity included. Much of Europe and most of the rest of the world were to become a German-dominated...