Word: hitleritis
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...revisionist attack on aspects of America's successful policy of containing the Soviet Union over a period of some 40 years. In implementing that policy, the U.S. government did not always have perfectly clean hands, but it was struggling against a regime as evil as those of Hitler, Saddam Hussein and maybe Mao combined. So the U.S. manipulated foreign governments! So what? Which do Barlett and Steele believe was the better option--giving in to the Soviets, or nuclear war? PHILLIP HAWLEY Galliate Lombardo, Italy...
...Young Hitler...
...fairly used to war,” says John H. Zentay ’53, a government concentrator in Lowell House, who was drafted a mere 20 days after graduation. “Our parents had been in the First World War...the beginning of our consciousness was Hitler and Germany...
...though Hitler cemented his power through deceit and thuggery, his gains also came through the ballot box. Without excusing its subject, Hitler shows why Germans followed him--some out of fear or opportunism, yes, but some because, for all his hate mongering, he and his Nazis were a party of optimism and vitality in a beaten-down, cynical nation. When he voices his twisted but near religious belief in Germanic exceptionalism--"Do you think there are any Jews in Valhalla?"--one can despise him while understanding the source of his power. He is the personification of Yeats' line: the worst...
...finished mini-series has swayed many critics. Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, says it "reminds us how fragile democracy is." That's not to say that Hitler solves every mystery--it's cagey, for instance, on whether most Germans shared or simply tolerated Hitler's anti-Semitism--or that no viewer might draw the wrong lessons from it. When people say it's risky to try to understand evil, they're right. But it is far more dangerous not to try to understand...