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Originally Posted by cyberia
How could a people, my people, who produced a Beethoven and Brahms, also produce a Hitler and Himmler?
I have to be honest here. If I had to deal with the fact that I played an indirect role in what happened, my memory might be selective as well. Otherwise I might not be able to live with myself.
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I hope not to be falling to far off the track of this thread, but your comments remind me of my own demons I still fight over the insanity of Rwanda. As I found over years of therapy amongst the many things warped in my head was extreme guilt over the lack of world response to what would become a genocidal nightmare. It makes no sense to many but they never saw the aftermath of the Newsbytes ignored by the world. I was told I was affected thus because I'm an empathic person, I cared too much. Well, Cyberia I have made one conclusion on that, empathy is not a bad thing, many more of humanity need to develop it, then maybe we will not ignore the Hitler's or Pol Pot's of the world and their evil minions.
I thought that this would stop interest in the study of warfare, but sometimes now I gain solace from my studies into how these things can happen. I have come to the conclusion that while we as human like to hold single individuals responsible for the tragic events that happens, it still takes many others to make them happen. This not only includes the direct perpetrators, but those who talk about it endlessly but do nothing especially when it's well within their means. This is why I actually more believe than wonder about my own statement:
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one has wonder if his minions hung on for the ride so to speak because they couldn't admit to themselves that they had made such an insane error hitching their lives and their countries future to the coattails of a madman.
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Politics based on hate, may have leaders and those leaders seem to historically to have something about them that is unhinged, but why is it we fail to see or believe when the madness spreads to the group and becomes national policy. These groups rarely have the noted Artists and Great Teachers in them, (these people become targets themselves) but they do have the thugs that every society seems have, only now with unchecked power. Again here, Cyberia it has not just been the German people affected thusly, other society's our past and present have managed such horrible feats on various scales and it seems to continue, Rwanda, Cambodia, North Korea, Iraq, Argentina I could go on. Was Hitler crazy, Yes, but many went crazy with him and this situation seems to be a common thread in society's that have gone horribly wrong, and will keep going wrong.