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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. |
I imagine it would correlate to the number of refugees that made it out. That's a guess, though: as far as I know, both Stalin and Mao locked their borders down before they began their campaigns, whereas Hitler solicited aid (and received it) from all of Europe before people started to resist.
Most of us know the name of Anne Frank, for instance, but how many people can name a victim anywhere else? We've interwoven Hitler into our cultural memory far more deeply than we've bothered with vaguely moderner atrocities. How many people even pay attention to the name Darfur anymore?