Theological Notebook: Dissertation Documentation; Following the Rise of the Third Reich

[novak]

Up early/late working on the dissertation, bogged down in trying to work out exactly how much documentation I might need for a section I'm working on, or how much I can simply write from observation in making a generalization. I'm thinking and writing right now about the extent to which I think the Catholic Charismatic Renewal has either lost

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Hilter

[crookedfingers]

I recently bought a used book titled "Germany, Hitler & World II by Gerhard L. Weinberg-someday I like to read it-Hitler is someone I like to read about-the book by Weinberg might be something to look at-I also bought recently a used book titled "The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930's" by Piers Brendon-there is a chapter in this book titled 'The Triumph of Hitler'.

Re: Hilter

[novak]

I can understand why so many people do research into the subject: there's a horrible fascination to it, like reading The Lord of the Flies for the first time, in realizing that these are real people, in a real situation not all that removed from our own. That's why I think Merton's "Devout Meditation in Memory of Adolf Eichmann" is so important: that we cannot excuse ourselves by writing these people off as insane. The fact that these people were perfectly sane - that they just believed crazy things - is the greatest of political and ethical warnings; for people after World War II to not engage in that kind of self-scrutiny of our own politics and presuppositions is to invite the same kind of thing to happen again.