Word: hitlered
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...them, with what she remembers as a starchy military bearing, told her that in order to claim the account she would have to produce a death certificate for her father. "I broke into tears," she says, "and I cried to him, 'You want me to get it from Hitler, from Himmler?' But it was no use." That was the experience of thousands of Jews...
...this became crystallized in the fall of 1993, when Hungarians witnessed another state funeral, this time by the conservative government: the reburial of Hungary's former dictator, Admiral Miklos Horthy, who had died in exile in Portugal after the war. It was under Horthy, an ally of Hitler, that 600,000 Hungarian Jews were deported and murdered in Auschwitz in the spring and summer of 1944. Now, some of the same "dissidents" who had celebrated Imre Nagy were celebrating Horthy...
...Western civilization--specifically, its values of reason, individualism, and freedom--which has made the greatest progress in history in eradicating such horrors from the face of the earth. Ear from smearing the man who introduced such a life-giving culture to this hemisphere with fatuous invocations of Hitler and Stalin. We should hail Columbus as one of history's greatest benefactors. --Barry D. Wood, Member, Harvard Objectivist Club
Netanyahu: If I read the controlled Palestinian media, I would think that, as they call me, I'm worse than Hitler...
...contradicts this knee-jerk response. Certainly Columbus is not a hero because of his genocidal policies. And when you understand the extent of his barbarism, it is hard to view him as a hero in spite of his crimes. Such a flippant trivialization of mass murder would legitimize celebrating Hitler and Stalin as well...