Comments on: The Horror of the Third Reich http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/posts/the-horror-of-the-third-reich/ programming, politics, & other religious issues Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:36:10 +0000 hourly 1 By: Ja http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/posts/the-horror-of-the-third-reich/#comment-34031 Ja Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:45:56 +0000 http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/?p=653#comment-34031 Virginia Postrel talks about how Naziism was glamorous: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/virginia_postrel_on_glamour.html Virginia Postrel talks about how Naziism was glamorous:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/virginia_postrel_on_glamour.html

]]> By: Bill Mill http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/posts/the-horror-of-the-third-reich/#comment-34012 Bill Mill Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:58:58 +0000 http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/?p=653#comment-34012 In order from least to most substantive: s/patience/patients http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2008/12/was_nazi_science_good_science.php is a fascinating article on nazi science which I will not endorse but rather introduce for discussion. A question: Was the Communist regime in Russia better or worse than the Nazis? Facts: it was both longer lasting and killed more people. (A lot more people). For simplicity's sake, let's only include the reigns of Lenin and Stalin. Hmm, I have more but I think that's enough. It's an extremely fertile ground for moral philosophy, although possibly too loaded due to its recency. In order from least to most substantive:

s/patience/patients

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2008/12/was_nazi_science_good_science.php is a fascinating article on nazi science which I will not endorse but rather introduce for discussion.

A question: Was the Communist regime in Russia better or worse than the Nazis? Facts: it was both longer lasting and killed more people. (A lot more people). For simplicity’s sake, let’s only include the reigns of Lenin and Stalin.

Hmm, I have more but I think that’s enough. It’s an extremely fertile ground for moral philosophy, although possibly too loaded due to its recency.

]]> By: Bill Mill http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/posts/the-horror-of-the-third-reich/#comment-34011 Bill Mill Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:57:22 +0000 http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/?p=653#comment-34011 In order from least to most substantive: s/patience/patients http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2008/12/was_nazi_science_good_science.php is a fascinating article on nazi science which I will not endorse but rather introduce for discussion. A question: Was the Communist regime (in Russia better or worse than the Nazis? Facts: it was both longer lasting and killed more people. (A lot more people). For simplicity's sake, let's only include the reigns of Lenin and Stalin. Hmm, I have more but I think that's enough. It's an extremely fertile ground for moral philosophy, although possibly too loaded due to its recency. In order from least to most substantive:

s/patience/patients

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2008/12/was_nazi_science_good_science.php is a fascinating article on nazi science which I will not endorse but rather introduce for discussion.

A question: Was the Communist regime (in Russia better or worse than the Nazis? Facts: it was both longer lasting and killed more people. (A lot more people). For simplicity’s sake, let’s only include the reigns of Lenin and Stalin.

Hmm, I have more but I think that’s enough. It’s an extremely fertile ground for moral philosophy, although possibly too loaded due to its recency.

]]> By: poul http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/posts/the-horror-of-the-third-reich/#comment-33979 poul Sat, 03 Jan 2009 09:17:24 +0000 http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/?p=653#comment-33979 I was always wondering how murder on an industrial scale could have been established in a country that had its share of civilization. Killing in KZs required a lot of people that are willing to kill or support killing of innocent persons regularily. Could you imagine yourself killing a few children a day? I cannot but on the other hand I'm not that much different than the guys from my grandfarthers generation. A good hint how to resolve this paradox may be the Milgram experiment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment. I was always wondering how murder on an industrial scale could have been established in a country that had its share of civilization.

Killing in KZs required a lot of people that are willing to kill or support killing of innocent persons regularily. Could you imagine yourself killing a few children a day? I cannot but on the other hand I’m not that much different than the guys from my grandfarthers generation. A good hint how to resolve this paradox may be the Milgram experiment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment.

]]> By: Robert Fischer http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/posts/the-horror-of-the-third-reich/#comment-33368 Robert Fischer Sat, 07 Jun 2008 02:14:33 +0000 http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/?p=653#comment-33368 Hitler's efforts to rebuild the economy strongly mirror the implementation from the New Deal, even if his motivations were different. He reinstated social support services which had dissolved during World War I, engaged in an expansive construction/urban renewal campaign, provided food to the starving (Germans) and jobs to the unemployed (Germans), and spent a significant amount of government money to jump-start the free market (e.g. Volkswagen). If you weren't getting gassed to death or drafted into the army, Germany was a reasonably nice place to be. His motivation for doing this, from what I've gathered, was twofold: 1) to get the German economy back to the point where it could crank out the tanks and bullets to feed the war machine, and 2) to keep people sated -- if they were comfortable and had a lot to lose, they weren't going to become rebels. Hitler’s efforts to rebuild the economy strongly mirror the implementation from the New Deal, even if his motivations were different. He reinstated social support services which had dissolved during World War I, engaged in an expansive construction/urban renewal campaign, provided food to the starving (Germans) and jobs to the unemployed (Germans), and spent a significant amount of government money to jump-start the free market (e.g. Volkswagen). If you weren’t getting gassed to death or drafted into the army, Germany was a reasonably nice place to be.

His motivation for doing this, from what I’ve gathered, was twofold: 1) to get the German economy back to the point where it could crank out the tanks and bullets to feed the war machine, and 2) to keep people sated — if they were comfortable and had a lot to lose, they weren’t going to become rebels.

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