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...classic Utopians were more realistic. They knew that evil could not simply be willed (or smoked) away, that it had to be handled decisively or it would undermine human community. "All that is necessary to describe the new society is to describe a new way of life," writes Charles Reich at his most euphoric. But while he is contentedly describing Utopia for the benefit of his enchanted listeners, others may be acting quite contrary to such instructions. The weakness of inner Utopia is that it surrenders control of outer events. In the end, it may prove to be guilty...
NONFICTION 1. The Greening of America, Reich...
...Germany's das Reich panzer division raced up from southwest France toward Normandy to meet the invading Allies, two episodes of unspeakable savagery occurred in its path...
...following day, in reprisal for the kidnaping of an SS officer by the French underground, a heavily armed contingent from the Reich division rounded up all the inhabitants of the peaceful village of Oradour-sur-Glane. Old people were routed from bed and children from the schoolhouse, where their teacher had just scrawled on the blackboard: "I make a resolution never to harm others." In the main square, German machine-gunners methodically mowed down 200 men, poured gunpowder onto the pile of bodies and set it afire; only five escaped...
...with a number of atrocities perpetrated by his SS tank corps. Almost invariably, the investigators were told that the orders for the massacres came from officers other than Lammerding. Most of those officers, as it conveniently happens, died in Normandy or during the last days of Hitler's Reich...