tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16959378.post3133080694291669067..comments2023-10-16T04:58:53.689-04:00Comments on Verily Verily: National Socialism and Higher EducationRafaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14471888340005683193noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16959378.post-40988466207052300752009-06-18T16:43:33.940-04:002009-06-18T16:43:33.940-04:00What changed the perception of the Nazi's was ...What changed the perception of the Nazi's was the publication of the photos and the documentation of the evidence of the death camps. The images convinced everyone who saw them that they were in the presence of pure evil.<br /><br />Of course there was already present in the consciousness of the West the conviction that human beings were created in the image of God and therefore valuable. The clash between the concept of the image of God and the visual images of twisted, wasted corpses, convinced the public that whatever produced this is evil.<br /><br />Last summer I was researching the Nazi policy on environmental issues--and in some ways they were pretty progressive--I'm reluctant to say.<br /><br />But I'll leave it at this: maybe if the Nazis had not tortured and murdered so many innocent people for purely arbitrary reasons, maybe they would not have been so bad.<br /><br />MarkAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com