Word, Cory.

Fascination with Nazi mystique is a sure sign of someone who hasn't Grown Up.
 
David Brin wrote a nifty fantasy short story -- "Thor vs. Captain America" I think -- that has the Germans allied with the nordic gods of old. The response of the American heroes, facing inevitable death at a hokey mystic ceremony: Derisive laughter.

This site was hard to read, and hard not to.

I find Cory's line: "Childish messages and childish horrors are the stock-in-trade of demagogues. It's a demagogue's willingness to shave the corners off the truth and elide nuance and reduce the program to a single bullet point in words of one syllable that gives him the ability to command a mob." scary because it's true.

This comment also makes me think about our president, with his predilection for simple, childish messages, manipulation of the truth, and appeals to fear and the mob.

Lots of good stuff there, but.....

Cory says: "To be at the mercy not of monsters, but of children of monstrous strength and disposition, that is the true horror."

For me, it is not. For me, it is to be at the mercy of other humans like me; not monsters, children, foreigners, maniacs, historical figures but just folks.

The fact they were German and operated half a century ago does not mean they were so very different from you and I.

In Aushwitz (Oswiecim), it is terrifying to imagine being a victim. It is far, far worse to consider the other possibility.