Who Goes Nazi?
Dec. 14th, 2010 01:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lightcastleA fascinating article from a 1941 issue of Harper's Magazine, Who Goes Nazi?"
It is an interesting read, and I started it not realizing it was written in 1941. I thought it was more recent but mimicking an older style.
And in a strange way, this story Shira linked to speaks to some of the same issues.
It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one's acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go Nazi. By now, I think I know. I have gone through the experience many times - in Germany, in Austria, and in France. I have come to know the types: the born Nazis, the Nazis whom democracy itself has created, the certain-to-be fellow-travelers. And I also know those who never, under any conceivable circumstances, would become Nazis.
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Nazism has nothing to do with race and nationality. It appeals to a certain type of mind.
It is an interesting read, and I started it not realizing it was written in 1941. I thought it was more recent but mimicking an older style.
And in a strange way, this story Shira linked to speaks to some of the same issues.
