Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Ordinary Men

Netflix has a documentary of this title built around Christopher Browning's book by this title.   It was profoundly disturbing. Like Leni Yahil's The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry, Browning points out the officers in charge of the Einsatzgruppen were highly educated (usually with two doctorates) cultured middle class men.  

The parallels to today are worrisome: the younger members of Police Reserve Battalion 101 were more likely to carry out orders to exterminate Jews because they had been educated in hatred their entire lives.  Those a bit older and thus not victims of K-12 education under National Socialist rule were more likely to refuse those orders.  

The Poison Ivy League and their state university peers have been doing this same job of educating the young to hate and avoid nuanced examination of claims.  They are producing the same highly credentialed intellectuals that can sway those of weak moral character to do evil.  If the current Democratic Party ever gets back in control with their current rage, Jews and those of us who qualify as Jew-adjacent will need to be ready to deal with this before they start herding us into boxcars or bullet trains to central Nevada for re-education.  (I am kidding about bullet trains; they will never get them working soon enough for extermination.)

No comments:

Post a Comment