On Sep 26, 2007, at 5:24 PM, Chris Doss wrote:
> --- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> In a 1977 column, Buchanan said that despite Hitler's
> anti-Semitic
> and genocidal tendencies, he was "an individual of
> great
> courage...
>
> --
>
> Well, he was. The fact that he was a mass murderer of
> nigh-unparalleled scale has no bearing on his
> courageousness.
You chopped off the rest of the quote: "Hitler's success was not based on his extraordinary gift alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path." The language suggests a lot of sympathy with Hitler - and a rather personalized understanding of the rise of Naziism.
Doug