(January 1, 2013 at 6:51 am)The_Germans_are_coming Wrote: None of these conflicting reports on the individual suggest that he was atheist. They underline that he was religious.
And I would like to point something very importent out, something I find ignored quite alot.
One of my favorite quotes on national socialism is by the former head of the German roma comunity:
"It was neighter Hitler, Göbbels nore Göring who murdered my family by pushing them into ofens.
It was the local butcher, the carpenter and the local merchant.
They all were given black uniforms and declared to be the master race, then they went to murder us."
If there is one such thing as a importent question to ask or importent lesson to learn ouf of this darkest chapter of our nation, then it is the question of:
"What turns ordenary people into babaric murderers?"
To simply blame everything on Hitler and on whatever he might have thought or not thought is to give a pass on the countless people who commited these crimes.
I for one dont use Hitlers non atheism as an argument against religion. He might have been religious and he might have given the orders to murder 20 million Russians, 6 million jews, and 10 million other civilians.
But he was not the one who carried the order out.
And the question of "what motivated these people (some of which were members of my family) to carry out such crimes and to abandon all moral principles, is the question which bothers me more, than what Hitlers diet or views on Islam might have been.
I agree, If we can't find the answer to what turns "nice folk" into complicit agents in genocide and find a solution then we risk more of the same but in the modern world the scale gets cranked up fast. It really is scary.
