Twisted

We need more than patience to face people with twisted, perverted, tortured, weird logic.

Yesterday after almost 4 hours of Anne Frank's diary the movie I attempted to delineate the mindset of Hitler and the Nazis, to reveal the logic that was the source of the Holocaust. The concept of the Final Solution of Jewish problem was a collective project and coherent structure of thoughts, and it was consciously undertaken and profoundly significant to many persons. Much to my disturbed surprise.

I should seek to uncover the fantasy that was the source of Hitler's perception of reality.

But now whom should one trust in order to understand his ideology? Diaries are great, but he did not keep one. His own autobiography, Mein Kampf (My struggle), is known to misrepresent events, filled with glorified inaccuracies, self-serving half-truths and outright revisionism, thus is problematic. His speeches are discounted immediately since they were designed to manipulate rather than to inform.

How to know someone who had the astuteness, the ability to lie, twist, cheat and flatter, one who has learned to lie to his conscience with conviction and to dissemble with candor?

"I was convinced that of all the millions on whom the Hitler Myth had fastened itself, the most carried away was Adolph Hitler, himself." Howard K. Smith

Clever observation.

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