March 16, 2004

"THE RELATIVELY FEW INDIVIDUALS WHO SURVIVE...GIVE RISE TO THE NEXT GENERATION":

The War that Never Ends: a review of The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942 by Christopher R. Browning (Benjamin Schwarz, Atlantic Monthly)

[A]s Browning lucidly and vividly demonstrates, German anti-Semitism was hardly a fixed concept but, rather, evolved and mutated with the ever shifting circumstances...

An especially apt choice of words for what was essentially applied Darwinism.

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 16, 2004 7:54 AM
Comments

Yawn.

Posted by: Brit at March 16, 2004 8:49 AM

How then do you explain the Oberammergau Passion Plays?

Other than as applied religiosity, that is.

Posted by: Jeff Guinn at March 16, 2004 12:30 PM

What about them?

Posted by: oj at March 16, 2004 2:06 PM

A tradition long predating WWII--they were virulently anti-Semitic.

And far more widely known than Darwinism.

Posted by: Jeff Guinn at March 16, 2004 3:26 PM

Oh, yes, I know about the Passion Plays--350 years without a death.

But Nazism wasn't Christian, it was Darwinist.

Posted by: oj at March 16, 2004 3:32 PM

Without a death? Are you kidding?

Posted by: Harry Eagar at March 16, 2004 7:47 PM
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