[net.books] Whoa there! Don't sell Hitler short!

arndt@lymph.DEC (02/04/85)

I agree that freedom of speech is a fine right.  I agree that, as Rich Rosen
says, many non-thinking people vote - but don't gloss over what happened in
Germany under Hitler as something having nothing to do with reason.

Read Albert Speer's SPANDAU DIARIES.  He tells how he fell under Hitler's spell.He went to a rally expecting to see a funny little man dressed up in a uniform
raving and shouting like a loonie.  Well, he found a quiet well spoken, sincere
man in a business suit (he was addressing businessmen) talking about the sad
shape Germany was in (all too true) and how he wanted, with their support, to
DO something about it.  My point being that Hitler was no dummy.  Don't let the
newsreels fool you.  He tailored his speech and manner to the audience.  Just like today's pols.  If Gobbels had had T.V.!!!

It would pay you to read some of the memiors of the the SS men, for instance.

They were trying to build a new world.  Many of them were 'good' men as well as
good Germans.  So easy to be pulled along and join up.  The horror came soon 
enough.  But the first SS men British troops met behaved honorably.

Evil men fool good men with 'reason', eh?  I like that line from the old 
'Secret Agent' TV series title song: "A pretty face can hid an evil mind."

Well, a reasoned platform can hid an 'evil' program.  Can't an emotional
platform 'hide' a good program???

Say hey.

Regards,

Ken Arndt