I’ve read two biographies of Adolf Hitler, and I’m not ashamed to say that he had some traits I find admirable. He wasn’t a comic book villain. He was a real, complex, human being – just like the rest of us.
But Jewamongyou, you can’t PRAISE Hitler. You can’t admire him or defend him in any way, especially since you’re JEWISH!
Oh yes, I can. I hate him for what he did to my people, but I will not one-dimensionalize him. That would be a cop out, intellectually lazy and, in some ways, dangerous.
Similarly, I will not one-dimensionalize the Nazis, or even the neo-Nazis of today. Here’s an interesting video I just watched:
To the extent that NPCs understand it (very little), they’ll dismiss it as veiled neo-Nazi rhetoric. Yes, it is that, but it’s also a very good explanation of Weimar Germany and how it transitioned into Nazi Germany. It might also be an accurate prediction of America’s future.
The video takes us up to the point where strong men were forged in response to a regime of depravity and looming Communism. So far, so good.
As for what happened next, Hitler’s reckless expansionism and genocides, hopefully we can avoid these next time around.
The world is full of lazy, dishonest, people. Nazism didn’t arise because evil people got up one morning and decided to do evil things. If we don’t want Nazism, perhaps we should get rid of the Weimarism.
