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Originally Posted by Gene  On a tangent, Why is Hitler the subject of these conversations so much more often than Stalin and Mao who presided over larger mass exterminations than Hitler? That question has always been interesting to me. |
Excellent question. If we're going to use this darkworker/lightworker motif, one could make a reasonable argument from the little I know that Stalin was more of a bonafide darkworker than Hitler.
Maybe the fascination with Hitler as opposed to Stalin has something to do with his unapologetic anti-Semitism. Or maybe people sense that Hitler wasn't after power alone. Hunger for power is perhaps more understandable than that the “great beast” was as complicated a human being as anyone else. Maybe that’s the fascinating part. Then again, can’t this fascination also be found in the modern day “worship” of serial killers?
I don't really know.