This, so much. We’re so used to nazis being shorthand for unmitigated evil (cartoonish evil, even in relatively seriously films like Schindler’s List, they are played up as literal monsters) that we forget that the nazis were/are real human beings who should be held culpable for the things they do and promote in this world. I find Christopher Browning’s work very valuable on this issue. Ordinary Men should be mandatory reading along with Primo Levi and Ellie Wiesel, I think.
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