Word: hitleritis
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...punch cards and counting machines, says Black, were provided to Hitler's government as early as 1933, and were probably used in the Nazis' first official census that year. The technology came in handy again in 1939 when the government conducted another census, this time with the explicit goal of identifying and locating German Jews - and finally, Black alleges, in tracking records at Nazi concentration camps...
...hunger will cross the rivers/The greater part of the battle will be against Hister/He will cause great men to be dragged in a cage of iron/When the son of Germania obeys no law." But nobody stepped forth to warn Germans to be on guard against somebody named Hister or Hitler or something along those lines. It was only after Hitler's Germany had devastated Europe that students of prognostication noticed the references to "Hister" and "Germania" and credited Nostradamus with foreknowledge of World...
...good point when he says it's ridiculous to describe Norton as pro-slavery. But N.A.A.C.P. head Julian Bond also makes a good point when he labels her remarks "wanton insensitivity." Imagine if some politician who advocated building a German-style highway system said "we lost too much" when Hitler was defeated, and brushed off the Holocaust as merely "bad facts...
...Hitler loved his dogs. Does that make him any less of a monster? (I'd argue it makes him more of one, by the way.) But you see what I'm driving at. If you are responsible for great evil in your public life, I'm not sure it matters how decent you might have been in your private life. You can't tell me anything good that Joseph Stalin did in his private life that would make me say he was anything but evil...
...course, the farther that the world proceeds from the days of Hitler, Stalin and Mao, the more it is inclined to think of "leadership" as a basically positive thing, a self-evidently desirable quality to have in a head of state. We are inclined to forget how dangerous powerful leadership...