Walter Williams is the man. He has to be one of my favorite thinkers of the modern era. Please read this article and marvel at his insight. I realize that much of his thought is brought about from a speech he attended, but I love him the same. I have a minor in history and ponder (and wrote papers) on this very topic throughout my college adventure.
Much of the reasoning behind our contempt for nazism, over communism/socialism is that we joined forces with the USSR in order to defeat the nazis. ONLY after Germany fell did we learn what deals we had made with the devil (to be fair, many generals [Patton especially], tried to warn our leaders). Additionally, the nazi's crimes were well known and "others" felt the brute of their ideology. Whereas, the communists "mostly" killed their own. Why this doesn't make much sense, people tend to overlook what "crimes" one does to his/her self, but heavily frown on crimes done to others.
The article states that nazis killed 20 million of their own and of those in countries they occupied. The Germans never killed their own in any "significant" numbers unless they are counting those lost due to warfare. This, in my opinion, is different than killing as a result of a purge.
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I've been reading Walter Williams for years. If he writes a really good piece you want to post, if you email him and ask him he'll let you post it for free.
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