Martin Amis's "The Zone of Interest" - 20 views
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I used to be numb; now I’m raw.
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erindn on 06 Oct 14The most common cause of such numbness I find is a losing of something of oneself, whether that be freedom, health, hope, or moral.
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except as a quasi-mythic figure revered and feared by more ordinary Nazis
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I never believed that Hitler could be seen as mythic, but perhaps that is because I focus on the big picture rather then the 'little' things such as chain of command, individual camps, and individual victims.
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human history that has always included warfare, unspeakable cruelty, and attempted genocide; what set the Nazis apart from less efficient predecessors was their twentieth-century access to the instruments of industrialized warfare and annihilation, and a propaganda machine
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God, I wish this was not true. The only reason that the Holocaust is in the forefront of our minds when we think of Genocide and racial supremacy is the simple fact that it is the most modern. The means in which everything was done and accomplished is so much more advanced then predecessors that it is more commonly recognized in the act of torture. You dont still here of the Brazen Bull or acts of Genocide that started in the 1400s'.
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