re: #185 Sir John Barron

“OK, let’s say he orchestrated the intentional torture and systematic murder of 6 million+ Jews and was responsible for killing millions more Russians and Poles, but look, he was right on many levels.”

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One of my conservative friends claimed that in 1937 a vast majority of Germans supported Hitler because the economy was doing well, and after the terrible years they suffered, that was an important accomplishment. When I then said that this reflected ill on the people because of their acceptance of the evil that he had unleashed on Germany, he accused me of being “moralistic” in judging the German people, that they were really unaware of what was happening, and suggested my liberal friends would react the same way in those circumstances. After reading the dailykos.com diary linked by Belafon yesterday, he may have somewhat of a point on how easy it is for people to embrace evil.