Among the Brutalized and the Murderers - 0 views
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"Nazi Germany and its overtly exterminationist imperial project of the later 1930s and and early 1940s owed much to the logic of ethnic conflict and irredentism created by the Great War and the redrawing of borders in 1918-19."
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while there are many roots of Nazism - ideological, historical, national - it was in many ways the fruition of the aftermath of World War I. Ad hoc and impulsive meldings of revanchist ideologies and mass murder, often haphazard in nature, were refined, systemized and after a period of gestation organized into what we might call the total quality genocide of the Final Solution.
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The generally peaceful world we have all grown up in is not normal or pre-ordained. It was built by design, a great deal of work and sacrifice and on the experience of and in response to almost unimaginable destruction
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The wave of rightist, populist politics which is now making a bid for power in Europe and which is represented in the United States by President Trump and his key advisors is expressly based on the rightist, hyper-nationalist politics of this period.