Posted by Sigismund on August 9, 2007, at 15:33:41
In reply to Lou's reply to Sigismund-pastintoprsnt » Sigismund, posted by Lou Pilder on August 8, 2007, at 20:37:35
My understanding is that any member of the regime (certainly most of the SS) was meant to be 'working their way towards the Fuehrer', which meant not waiting for orders, but having been made aware of the broad outline of his thinking, they were to improvise, providing the Fuehrer and his followers with new situations that would serve as pretexts for increasing radicalisation (eg creating the conditions for the outbreak of epidemics) and this destructive/vengeful way of thinking seemed to permeate the times. Eichmann's famous quote 'I shall leap into my grave laughing....' is more suggestive of this thinking than his claim to his interrogator that he would be prepared to offer up his life if it would lead to racial harmony (is this what 20 years in Brazil does for you?).
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