Hitler Clarification

[sco!stewarte@ucscc.UCSC.EDU]

>Well, you must have been dreaming because you have misinterpretted what
>I said.  (It appears that other people have done the same thing, so I
>will clarify what I meant.)  What I am expressly NOT saying is that Hitler
>should be viewed as the Devil, or some other non-human entity.  NO,
>not at all.  I agree with you and the others who have so correctly 
>observed that the scariest thing about the Holocaust and the Nazis
>was the fact that they (not just Hitler, but all of them) were human.

Okay, here'sdd
>My point, however, is that any attempt to include Hitler and the Nazi
>attrocities in a song (or any other art form for that matter -- with
>the exception of memorials set up to explicitly *commemorate* the
>slaughter of over 6 million people) and in particular in a song that
>romanticizes, even a slight bit (as you must admit KT's song does),
>Hitler or is cohorts, is dangerous, because it serves to partially
>eclipse the totally heinous nature of Hitler's actions, and these must
>in no way be diminished.
>
>To put Hitler in a song of this type is to do him an honour that
>he does not deserve.
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