The past needs to be judged in context. Stein was the den mother of the Lost Generation, a group who had been brutalized by the last gasp of the European monar

The past needs to be judged in context. Stein was the den mother of the Lost Generation, a group who had been brutalized by the last gasp of the European monarchies in WW1. As an avant garde movement, the Lost Generation embraced many new political philosophies. WW2 had not yet been fought, you cannot judge the intellectual interests of the Lost Generation based on what was learned at the Nuremberg Trials