Word: hitlerize
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...course the 400-pound Jones's sad-sacking couldn't have anything to do with his habit of signing papers "Adolf Hitler" and "Snow White" -- and why penalize him for the age-old Nebraska legal tradition of setting bonds of "a gazillion pengos," as he is accused of doing? Throw in his misunderstood indoor Grucci impersonation along with allegations of swearing routinely at court staff and making improper physical contact with a female judge, and you've got the makings of a high-tech lynching, as another wise man once said. Jones's suit says he was discriminated against...
...British historian Alan Bullock's early interpretation, for example, had Hitler as, among other things, a cunning, low-rent charlatan. The other great British Hitler explainer, H.R. Trevor-Roper, constructed a Fuhrer on the grand, demonic scale: a Great Bad Man theory of history. Between the poles of Bullock and Trevor-Roper, historians, psychologists and others have brought an anguished ingenuity to trying to account for the monster or, in the newest scholarly and academic literature, to dismiss the old "Hitler-centric" theories in favor of larger abstractions (the German character, Christian anti-Semitism...
What Hannah Arendt called the banality of evil has engendered an astonishing banality of explanation. A 1991 installment of television's Unsolved Mysteries focused on three "Diabolic Minds"--those of Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy and Adolf Hitler. The Fuhrer, it seems, "had a stern father and was unable to establish a healthy relationship to his mother." Auschwitz resulted, you see, from the child Adolf's low self-esteem. A 1981 book published in Germany suggested in all seriousness that when Hitler was a youth, a billy goat took a bite out of his penis. Hence his subsequent career...
...more sophisticated--but still far-fetched--level, George Steiner's controversial novel, The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H., argued, as Rosenbaum says, "that the tolerance, the secret approval, the permission [Hitler] received from the rest of the world to exterminate the Jews can be explained by the universal hatred mankind has for the Jewish 'invention of conscience,' for the torment inflicted on man by the ethical demands of Moses, Jesus, and Marx...
...impossible to think about civilization, responsibility, human possibility, evil--or, of course, God--without confronting Hitler. In this brilliantly skeptical inventory of the world's Hitler-thinking, Rosenbaum analyzes not only the multiple Hitler theories but also the agendas and fantasies that the theorizers bring to their subject. His book may be useful to the surprising number of people--Flat-Earthers of the moral realm--who, even now, refuse to believe in the existence of evil. To them, admitting evil's reality seems to empower the irrational in an intolerable way, to give it a certain vulgar, primitive mystification...