I kind of disagree with everything in @davidfrum's review of Black Earth, but it's a smart, challenging read: https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/beyond-the-bloodlands/ …
@StephenMarche That's true. He thought the Germans had failed him and wanted to see them suffer. Hitler was a real asshole.
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@HeerJeet The book is an attempt to take Hitler's theology of violence, which so many regard as persiflage, as seriously as he did. -
@HeerJeet I have to admit I find it very convincing. It's hugely complex but it explains so much that is otherwise inexplicable. - Show replies
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@HeerJeet@StephenMarche But he was pretty much insane by then. Reading his terminal nihilism as his true ideology seems weak on its face -
@theturner@HeerJeet I know it sounds crazy. Really. But you have to read it.
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