Revisiting The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich | History & Archaeology | Smithsonian Magazine

[Otto]

Sounds pretty actual:

"(...)  the foremost object lesson from rereading Shirer’s remarkable
work 50 years on might be that the glorification of suicidal
martyrdom, its inseparability from delusion and defeat, blinds its
adherents to anything but murderous faith—and leads to little more
than the slaughter of innocents."

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2012/12/5 Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>:
> Notice has been taken on this list of Pynchon's Germany-bashing, to be euphemistic about it.
> We remember how TRP came to distinguish the Deep Germany from the historical Germany,
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> The estimable Ron Rosenbaum, rereading Shirer's important book, focuses on how Shirer blamed Germany, historical Germany, in specific ways and as embodied in specific people's ideas.
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> Interesting if interested.
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