Saturday, April 05, 2008

Hitler and the Jews

Check out this Econolog post about why Hitler chose the Jews, it's creepy.

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6 Comments:

Blogger Purpleslog said...

I am not so sure about this. Antisemitism was deep ingrained in Germany (and Europe) long before Hitler. Hitler added 21st century industrialization to the homicidal violence that occasional broke out against jews - he didn't invent it - he grew up in it and "refined/improved" it.

3:52 PM  
Blogger Steve said...

True. It did bring to mind Eric Hoffer's adage of "You can have a religion without a God, but not without a devil". Come to think of it, I probably should have put that in the blog post.

5:38 PM  
Blogger Purpleslog said...

I love that quote.

6:11 PM  
Blogger Steve said...

Hoffer is one of those grand visionary thinkers that few know about. If you haven't read his classic, the True Believer you really should.

6:15 PM  
Blogger Purpleslog said...

I hadn't, so I just now ordered it from amazon.com.

6:43 PM  
Blogger Steve said...

You'll have to let me know what you think. It was a worldview changing book for me.

7:09 PM  

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