The necessity of humanizing Hitler
Tom Oldfield — July 6, 2009 8 Comments
Hitler was pure evil, of that there is little doubt, but such an evaluation should be the start of a commentary and attempted understanding of his character, not simply a start and end point in itself. If he is dismissed as such, we are removing the need to chart back through history. We are bypassing the necessity to analyse and see why he came to embody such evil; why his anger was so entrenched by Versailles; why his views and propaganda were so successful; and how he came to be in a position to express European anti-Semitism so violently. In short, if we dehumanise, we are removing the burden to understand and comprehend, and in doing so, amplifying the possibility of it happening again.
Editor's Pick, Psychology
Irregular Army: The rise of neo-Nazis in the US military
Matt Kennard — June 30, 2009 4 Comments
Carter F. Smith is a former military investigator who worked with the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command from 2004 to 2006, when he helped to root out gang violence in troops. “When you need more soldiers, you lower the standards, whether you say so or not,” he says. “The increase in gangs and extremists is an indicator of this.” Military investigators may be concerned about white supremacists, he says. “But they have a war to fight, and they don’t have incentive to slow down.”
Politics
Neo-Nazis and the US military: The artists’ take
Andrew Wheatley — June 21, 2009 0 Comments
Andrew Wheatley
Art
Strange but true: White supremacists rejoice at election of Barack Obama
Matt Kennard — November 12, 2008 1 Comment
Against all intuitive reasoning the white supremacist movement in the United States thinks the election of Barack Obama is the best thing to happen to them for decades.