Spot the Lonney

David Casseres casseres at apple.com
Wed Feb 19 14:06:00 CST 1997


Richard Romeo sez

>Can someone explain the following:  "The popular culture at the time 
>depicted Hitler as a looney".  

Others have been explaining it but I'll add a footnote: pop culture 
depicted Hitler as a loony, and tended (and still tends) to make that the 
whole explanation for the horrors of the Third Reich -- thus trivializing 
the reasons and roots of the evil that is Nazism.  I think this is 
encouraged, if not orchestrated, by the interests that I (after Pynchon) 
call "Them."


Cheers,
David




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