Word: hitlering
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Second, because we often need such dictators to win the larger struggle against a global threat to liberty--Nazism, communism, Islamic radicalism. Did we not, after all, join with Stalin, one of the great monsters of the 20th century, in order to defeat Hitler? Does anyone doubt not just the necessity but the morality of that alliance? It is the principle of the lesser evil. As Churchill once famously said, "If I were told that the devil were on poorer terms with Hitler, I should find myself making an alliance with hell...
Alliance with hell is justified as long as it is temporary. When Hitler was defeated, we stopped coddling Stalin. Forty years later, as communism ebbed, the U.S. helped overthrow Marcos and ease out Pinochet. We withdrew our support for those dictators once the two conditions that justify such alliances had disappeared: the global Soviet threat had receded and a domestic democratic alternative had emerged...
...letters later. Schulse observes cheerily from Munich: "I tell you, my friend, there is a surge - a surge. The people everywhere have had a quickening. You can feel it in the streets, and shops." A few exchanges later, the two men are enemies. What intervenes, of course, is Adolf Hitler. ("The man is like an electric shock," says an ever-more-admiring Shulse.) But Address Unknown is more than a portrait of a failed friendship or a tale of Nazism's rise. Without giving away too much, let me say that a death is avenged and a blow struck against...
...with American architect Frank Gehry, the son of Polish Jews. "We want Poland to be seen as more than the world's largest Jewish graveyard," says project director Jerzy Halbersztadt. These efforts have one thing in common: their focus is not on how Jews died at the hands of Hitler and his sympathizers, a story that has been searingly told elsewhere, but instead on how they lived. "This is not a Holocaust project," says Ed Serotta, director of the Central Europe Center for Research and Documentation in Vienna. "We're providing the elderly Jews of Central and Eastern Europe with...
...what was ending was not history itself but the history of the nation-state--a constitutional order characterized by governments that promised to better the material well-being of a historically defined people. F.D.R., Stalin and Hitler each promised this, even if they had radically different notions of what constituted a nation and how to achieve the objective. Yet within the triumph of the parliamentary nation-state lay the seeds of its eventual demise. A universal system of human rights defied its sovereignty and undermined its ability to control its citizens. An international system of trade and finance removed...