I happened to be reading a book with some western thinkers' analysis of the German Nazi Holocaust. Bauman said that the Nazi Holocaust cannot be explained as a special and accidental event, so neither "perversion theory" or "hate theory" can stand up. Even Nazi officers, many people seem to have a very human side in their daily lives. They show love and sympathy for their lovers, children, and pet dogs. They even have elegant artistic taste and cultural literacy. This atrocities occurred because of modernity, a modern bureaucracy that is machine-like rationality. The scene of the massacre is like an industrial assembly line. Everyone just follows the rules, divides the work and cooperates. In the film, Eichmann, a senior Nazi military officer who organized the Wanhu Conference, later cited Kant to defend himself when he was tried. He said he was performing his duties and obeying the (German) law. Arendt believes that the Eichmanns "unbelievably lost the ability to think", that is, the ability to judge independently, is called "the evil of banality." I happened to see this movie again, showing the whole process of the secret meeting on "Solution to the Jewish Problem". The participants in the movie included doctors, professors, jurists, diplomats, and soldiers, almost representing German society at that time. The concept of the mainstream class, they are gentle, talkative, and there are red-faced arguments, but they are talking about the final plan of an upcoming massacre, that is, a two-hour, quick, and no trace of a meeting, which quietly pulls it. In order to be rational, unthinking, mechanical, and the clockwork of the Holocaust... This movie plus the views in that book gave me a new understanding of the Nazis and I learned.
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