Word: hitlerized
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...know Hitler was not just an aberration, but an almost logical outcome of a society that had fallen apart." Pisar observes. "My purpose was not so much to write an autobiography, but to establish a link between what I have lived and the new dangers--not only to tell myself what has happened but to transmit it to others who learn from history very, very badly...
...Western attempts to change it. Nevertheless, compared with Nazi Germany, "Uncle Joe" Stalin's Russia seemed by far the lesser of two evils. "I can't take Communism, nor can you," said Roosevelt to Ambassador Joseph Davies in 1941. "But to cross this bridge [i.e., beat Hitler], I would hold hands with the devil...
...forget that only 40 years ago, one of the most civilized nations on the globe carried out the systematic slaughter of six million people out of pure anti-Semitism. The frequent and sometimes offhand mention of the Holocaust obscures how real, timely, and savage hatred for Jews can be. Hitler's genocide has become just another landmark event, and when someone mentions it, instead of gasping "The Horror!" we chronicle it with the Norman Conquest, the Reformation, and other distant historical happenings...
...movies, for the most part, are no longer amusingly cheap, gloriously incompetent or outrageously trashy. Via television, Holly wood has fallen from innocent ineptitude into experienced mediocrity, we'll never get another They Saved Hitler's Brain...
...listens. Catastrophes proliferate. His father, who befriended Hitler during their student days in Vienna, expires in a blizzard, muttering "Mama." And Mama dies from tumors engendered by a radioactive mantelpiece. In his home town, a neutron bomb is accidentally exploded. The townsfolk die. The buildings remain...