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A circular photo of a bearded man with glasses in a dark jacket stands beside a quote. Text: "Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word…

A.R. Moxon on Historians and the Word Nazi

A.R. Moxon's widely shared quote argues history judges everyone who joined the Nazi party the same, whatever their motives. A history-class lesson for grown-ups.

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A circular photo of a bearded man with glasses in a dark jacket stands beside a quote. Text: "Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word…

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