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That is putting it gently. Much as Einstein struggled toward the end of his life to fashion a Grand Unified Theory explaining the entire cosmos, Verhaeghen links Nazism, the Holocaust, the nuclear age and the fall of communism in a grand web of causality and suspense. Hitler, Himmler, Mengele, Speer, Heisenberg, Honnecker and Gorbachev strut and fret through hot war and cold. The action ricochets back and forth from the '30s to the '90s, from Potsdam to Los Alamos to Auschwitz to post-Wall Berlin, where neo-Nazis are plotting an apocalypse that could put new zip in Einstein...
Omega Minor screams to the heavens when it confronts the Holocaust, perceptively recounted thorough De Heer's eyes. The Nazis "are not killing a people," De Heer posits. "What they want is to turn back modernity, get rid of rationality and its twin brother uncertainty." Recounting Germany's demented diversion of resources from the war effort to the extermination camps, right up to the end, De Heer concludes that Nazism's defining goal was the Holocaust, not all that Wagnerian nonsense about Reich and glory. Yet he concedes: "History is the lie people tell to give meaning to their pasts...
...visit Israel and to study Hebrew?And then there’s Iran, not Arab but Muslim, hence not included in the above statistic (613,660 square miles, population over 65 million). Why does our leader rant at the Jews—“There was no Holocaust!” “There will be no Israel!” —when no Jew ever raised a hand against him? What purpose is served by this posturing against a country and a people so much smaller than ours? And why can?...
...Sadat’s unexpected trip produced a wave of euphoria across Israel. Israeli diplomats scrambled to find Egyptian flags, a band that could play the Egyptian national anthem, and a way to show Sadat the Holy Land they had fought over. Israelis—Holocaust survivors, soldiers who had fought Egyptians only four years earlier, and a younger generation alike—welcomed Sadat with open arms. The Israeli daily Maariv printed a red banner headline in Arabic and Hebrew reading, “Welcome President Sadat.” Egyptian songs were played on the radio and Israelis...
...banality of evil” was a term coined by Hannah Arendt in her work on the Holocaust to describe how the great atrocities in history are generally not committed by sociopaths or crazy people. Instead, it is the ordinary people who accept the premise of their state and therefore participate in evil while perceiving it as normal. Ultimately, the people who ran my pledging process were not monsters. They were regular college students. Most were nice, accomplished, educated, socially-conscious, and even proclaimed Christians. We all knew each other, and in some cases had developed intimate bonds of sisterhood...