|
||||
|
Monday’s announcement that Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf is going to be republished in Germany for the first time since the end of World War II brought a couple thoughts to mind. I find it interesting that the State of Bavaria holds the copyright to the book. According to the news report, Bavaria took over the […] War crimes trials are a 20th Century invention. Although a vehicle for punishment and, perhaps, the reestablishment of the rule of law, one has to wonder the extent to which individual defendants truly acknowledge any real guilt. This is seen in the autobiography written by Auschwitz camp commander Rudolf Hoess while in prison following […] Early into reading Anna Funder’s Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall, I came across a passage that made me think, “That is truly Kafkaesque.” For some reason, that sent my mind on a digression into the difference between something being Kafkaesque and something being Orwellian. While I eventually sorted it out in my own […] |
        |
|||
|
Copyright © 2024 A Progressive on the Prairie - All Rights Reserved Powered by WordPress & Atahualpa |
||||