Adolf Hitler

justice

pain

occupation / innovator as

journalist

nationality

American

is a leader who did something civilization had not seen before. Genghis Khan operated in the context of the nomadic steppe, where pillaging villages was the norm. Hitler came out of the most civilized society on Earth, the land of Beethoven and Goethe and Schiller. He set out to kill people not for what they did but for who they were. Even Mao and Stalin were killing their "class enemies." Hitler killed a million Jewish babies just for existing.

If all Hitler had done was kill people in vast numbers more efficiently than anyone else ever did, the debate over his lasting importance might end there. But Hitler's impact went beyond his willingness to kill without mercy. He did something civilization had not seen before. Genghis Khan operated in the context of the nomadic steppe, where pillaging villages was the norm. Hitler came out of the most civilized society on Earth, the land of Beethoven and Goethe and Schiller. He set out to kill people not for what they did but for who they were. Even Mao and Stalin were killing their "class enemies." Hitler killed a million Jewish babies just for existing.

is sometimes at its most merciful when it's blind.

Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind. Nancy Gibbs

is the most private experience whose causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting.

Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting. Nancy Gibbs

Nancy GibbsThinkers

Nancy Gibbs