Chapter 20 Chapter 4 The Decline of Liberalism

The Nazi phenomenon is beyond the scope of rational analysis.Its leader talks about world hegemony and destruction in the tone of heaven; its regime is based on the worst sense of racial hatred; its country is one of the most advanced cultural and economic countries in Europe.However, such a country is bent on misfortune, exterminating more than 50 million people, and committing countless appalling atrocities--the extreme evil, even massacring millions of Jews by mechanized methods.Facing Auschwitz (Auschwitz), historians can only be speechless and do not know where to start. ——Lan Kershaw (pp. 3-4)

Give your life for the motherland, for the ideal! ... No, death alone is not enough.Even at the forefront, killing the enemy is the first. ... Death is nothing, death does not exist.No one thinks that they will die, kill, kill, kill, this is the business, this is the territory waiting for you and me to open up.Yes, only going forward to kill is the embodiment of your full will.For only by killing can your will be done in another. —Letter from a Young Volunteer Army of the Fascist Socialist Republic (Pavone, 1991, p. 431)