Prometheus 6

from James MacLean of Hobson's Choice

I cannot recall being so distressed by world events as I am now. I suppose the events of 2003, horrifying as they were, were only a lower course of cut stone in the pyramid of evil. It was a previous step, before things got really awful. . I read it before and wrote a series about it (here).

Also, recently I watched a superb German movie Downfall, about the last days of the 3rd Reich (mainly told from the point of view of Hitler's personal secretary Traudl Junge). The story takes place mostly from inside the rapidly shrinking area of Nazi control in Berlin; much of it in the claustrophobic warren of tunnels under the Chancellery. I had always regarded the Nazi Movement in Germany as a sort of cancer--an opportunistic disease that attacked Germany, rather like exotic cancers attack people suffering from AIDS. In the movie, the Nazi leaders do increasingly reveal their predatory relationship with German society: