Billy Wilder's biography.
Here is Wilder's explanation of how Hitler got rid of all opposition parties:
And Mr. Hitler said, ‘You see what the Communists have done? There will be no other parties—only the National Socialist party.’
Sounds familiar? Just proclaim someone you don't like to be a communist.
And also a few obligatory lines about how Christians treated Jews in Europe:
Being Jewish, they were set doubly apart from their Polish neighbors. Violence against Jews was scarcely unheard of in these parts—“The Jew will buy the entire countryside, and you’ll be working on your knees,” a peasant newspaper Zwiazek Chlopski in western Galicia had written only a few years earlier. “Shun the Jews. Pull yourselves together. Save every penny and learn.” In 1898, there was a wave of anti-Jewish tumult in western Galicia, with mobs setting fire to Jewish-owned businesses, attacking Jewish houses with rocks, assaulting synagogues during Friday night services.
Here is Wilder's explanation of how Hitler got rid of all opposition parties:
And Mr. Hitler said, ‘You see what the Communists have done? There will be no other parties—only the National Socialist party.’
Sounds familiar? Just proclaim someone you don't like to be a communist.
And also a few obligatory lines about how Christians treated Jews in Europe:
Being Jewish, they were set doubly apart from their Polish neighbors. Violence against Jews was scarcely unheard of in these parts—“The Jew will buy the entire countryside, and you’ll be working on your knees,” a peasant newspaper Zwiazek Chlopski in western Galicia had written only a few years earlier. “Shun the Jews. Pull yourselves together. Save every penny and learn.” In 1898, there was a wave of anti-Jewish tumult in western Galicia, with mobs setting fire to Jewish-owned businesses, attacking Jewish houses with rocks, assaulting synagogues during Friday night services.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
