Child of Time said:
I'm fascinated by evil nazis. (Not that I know if there are any
good nazis.
)
me too, more or less. well that is too say, i do not think about nazis daily. i'm more fascinated by the good and evil in man, that is, how a man like Dr. Joseph Mengele, could be so evil, yet so "normal" ? This does not apply only to nazi germany, but to anything, altho it is more obvious to look at a specific case. I certainly do not admire evil persons, i merely look at them to see, why is it that humans are capable of such atrocities, yet many of us hold the ideals of the other side? Was Mengele a monster to his children as well? I doubt he was any worse than say, an abusive stepfather. Possibly he was even a "good" family father. I really cant say. And this fascinates me with the nazi camps, because the way history is taught at swedish schools, we are led to believe that all of germany was more or less indoctrined by the nazi ideals, that is, ARYAN ideals and etc. So, all germans living at the time period of 1939-1945 were nazi influenced, a few percent of resistance not counted. How is it then, that 60 years later, we do flourishing business with germans, and have cooperations in the EU, with no respect to this? Is it not wrong to label all of germany at the time of the nazi era, as EVIL? I would say so. A war such as the world war 2, did not just contain nazi ideals. To those soldiers fighting in the war on germanys behalf, not counting SS, i would say most of them were brave soldiers like any nation would expect, and there is nothing disgraceful about them. They were not evil per se. (This, disregarding what many of us may think of war and killing, but disregardless, it is part of human history)
anyway, on with the random details:
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