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Well, Charles, the problem is that what was known before the war (the Nazis do not have civil liberties, they would like to rewrite the boundaries, they persecute Jews), and what is known after the war (the Nazis terrorized opponents, they were bent on world hegemony, they tried to murder all of the Jews, and Gypsies, and homosexuals, etc.) are two different contexts, and it is one thing to say that the pre- war isolationist Right wasn't so bad, and another to question all of the lessons we think we have learned from the experience, or to try to second guess everyone involved, or to subtly downplay the Nazi menace.... |
