Word: salomone
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...effect, Von Salomon claims to have shied away from the Nazis because he despised them. Their goals were not so bad, though their excesses were perhaps unfortunate; Hitler sometimes struck him as being loathsome and Goebbels and Goring as too ridiculous and vulgar. He would not join them-he was never, apparently, convinced of their ultimate success-but neither did he feel that he wanted to speak against them. He decided to be a spectator. He saw many of his friends hunted down by the Nazis, realized sooner than most that Germany was being led to destruction, but from...
...impasse was broken to everyone's satisfaction: Von Salomon was ordered to Propaganda Boss Joseph Goebbels' movie industry as a writer for the duration...
...Guttersnipes? Von Salomon is not content with trying to exonerate himself...
...more than 100 pages, under the questionnaire heading "Remarks," Von Salomon pours out his hatred on Americans. Describing U.S. -run detention camps (those who worked in them will find them hard to recognize), he maintains that he was beaten and starved by sadistic...
There are in Von Salomon reflections of the things that made Hitler possible in Germany - moral color blindness, a dangerous half-intelligence that can rationalize even the most monstrous side of any case, self-pity mixed with arrogant self-righteousness. Yet it is clear that Von Salomon does not speak for all Germans, and it is hard to believe that he speaks even for an alarming or significant minority of them. There is a kind of totality, a rotten radiance about his cynicism which is rare in the worst of times...