05-19-2019, 09:34 AM
The Lost in America are contemporaries of some of the most evil people who ever lived -- Nazis and perpetrators of Stalinist horror. Of the ten executed (and one who committed suicide rather than face a hanging and another sentenced to death in absentia) after being convicted in the main Nuremberg trials, eight were born between 1883 and 1945, inclusive -- as were such abominable Nazis as Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels, and the infamous 'hanging judge' Roland Freisler. Also born between 1883 and 1900, inclusive were such quislings as Laval, Doriot, Deat, and Pellepoix of Vichy France, Szalasi in Hungary, Pavelic in Croatia, Rupnik in Slovenia, Tiso in Slovakia, Mussert in the Netherlands -- and Quisling himself. Most of the leading generals of Japan associated with horrific crimes, including Tojo, were of this age group.
Of Stalin's 'ablest students' -- Bierut in Poland, Ulbricht in East Germany, Gottwald in Czechoslovakia, Rakosi and Gero in Hungary, Gheorghiu-Dej in Romania, and Dimitroff in Bulgaria -- only Dimitroff was bourn outside that age span. Need I mention Vishinsky, Zhdanov, Beria, and Kaganovich? Then there are Mao Zedong and Ho Chi Minh...
...and many of the worst mobsters in American history. That was a troubled generation. Yes, it had its heroes and creative people, and legions of honest entrepreneurs and toilers. But if you are looking for evil, much of it was born between 1883 and 1900.
Of Stalin's 'ablest students' -- Bierut in Poland, Ulbricht in East Germany, Gottwald in Czechoslovakia, Rakosi and Gero in Hungary, Gheorghiu-Dej in Romania, and Dimitroff in Bulgaria -- only Dimitroff was bourn outside that age span. Need I mention Vishinsky, Zhdanov, Beria, and Kaganovich? Then there are Mao Zedong and Ho Chi Minh...
...and many of the worst mobsters in American history. That was a troubled generation. Yes, it had its heroes and creative people, and legions of honest entrepreneurs and toilers. But if you are looking for evil, much of it was born between 1883 and 1900.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.