Word: hitleritis
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Goldhagen said the efforts by Danish citizens and government officials, which helped save the lives of 99 percent of Danish Jews, serve as a sharp contrast to the dark picture of German citizens he painted in his controversial 1996 book, Hitler's Willing Executioners...
...fear of executing the wrong man (a more popular line of demurral these days) is an unreliable argument against all capital punishment. What if there are many witnesses to a murder? What if it's Hitler? Is capital punishment OK in cases of unmistakable guilt? George W. Bush says that he reviews each case to make sure he is absolutely certain a person did it before he allows a Texas execution to go ahead...
...Life at the Chilton has always been about pleasant conversation and intellectual discourse. Lectures, luncheons and theatre nights are the usual. Williams describes the eccentric Eleanora Sears during a ladies’ luncheon in 1932. The subject of the conversation was the personality of Hitler. Ms. Sears finally lost her patience and demanded that someone tell her who this Hitler was. The other ladies expressed amazement that she did not know. To this she responded indignantly, “I can’t be expected to know right off the bat the names of all the sophomores...
...FUNNIEST MOVIE SCENE: "Springtime For Hitler" from The Producers...
...take issue specifically with the possibility that even "Hitler can be forgiven" as a way of ridiculing salvation through faith. The speaker can only be accused of a lack of imagination; people often use Nazism as an example of absolute evil...