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Taken to an extreme, would you rather an obituary of Hitler not focus on a certain narrative as Nazi Germany numbered 100 million people and there certainly was

Taken to an extreme, would you rather an obituary of Hitler not focus on a certain narrative as Nazi Germany numbered 100 million people and there certainly was more to their world than hating Jews?

benjohnson 7y ago
If I'm understanding correctly I would like an obituary of Hitler to be comprehensive - because with a broader context we could perhaps understand how he rose to power. Or understand how a politician can be so charismatic that the people ignore the deaths of their neighbors.
- TomMckenny 7y ago
  The NYT article _is_ comprehensive, covering most of what the blogger says it lacked. Which is probably why he did not actually link to it. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/obituaries/thomas-monson-dies.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/obituaries/thomas-monson-...
dang 7y ago
Not this, please. The internet can't handle it. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21876278 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21876278.
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