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cdninkorea
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 Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 3:47 pm Post subject: Hitler's Greedy Executioners |
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The Toronto Star
Nov 10, 2007 04:30 AM
Stuart Laidlaw
Faith and Ethics reporter
http://www.thestar.com/article/274909
Avarice can be a bloody dictator's best friend, helping turn ordinary citizens into pliant tools of genocide. There's a lesson here for contemporary life.
A cheap set of clothes. A nice watch. A better apartment. Lower taxes. Maybe even a bit of a promotion at work. These can be the seductive incentives for ordinary people to support questionable government policies.
Even genocide can be given fertile ground, a visiting U.S. historian warns. |
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cdninkorea
Joined: 27 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 11:44 am Post subject: |
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| No takers, eh? I thought it was interesting, anyway. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 1:20 pm Post subject: |
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The Bush family of American politics got rich financing Hitler's militarization of Germany in the thirties.
There's a lesson here for contemporary life. |
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demaratus
Joined: 13 Apr 2005
Location: Searching for a heart of gold, and I'm gettin' old
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| Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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| You want a real interesting read about the Holocaust? try reading Hitler's Willing Executioners by Daniel Goldhagen. It is one of the most controversial books ever written regarding the Holocaust and the average Germans at the time. I don't but the argument but he does back up his points and makes an interesting discussion piece. |
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