Monday, March 21, 2005
Hitler slurs (3)
Regarding the prescription in my previous post (for rank ignorance on the subject of Nazism), I would advise picking up a book by an authoritive author on the subject of Hitler, and there is indeed no better remedy.
The proviso is that you must actually READ the book, not simply cite it without understanding it.
Unforunately, sadly, there are numerous examples of such misrepresentation. A common one concerns English historian Alan Bullock. Bullock's enormous recent tome Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives is in paperback form in many book stores, and seems - at least for a time - to have achieved flavour-of-the-month status, including amongst certain Democrat politicians and supporters.
Some of the latter refer to Bullock to assist in creating a veneer of credibility. However, it is virtually impossible to actually read his recent work without understanding the true nature of Nazism, as indicated in the comparison with fanatical Islam in my post below.
