Stanley Crouch: Totalitarianism remains a plague

sacbee.com     Jul 26, 2008            

Published 12:00 am PDT Saturday, July 26, 2008 Story appeared in METRO section, Page B7 In 1945, as the war in Europe was winding down, American soldiers began to discover the death camps built by the Third Reich. Looking at all the cadavers and the hills of human ash, Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered that every available photographer and film crew in the European theater be brought to the camps because, the general said, unless this is recorded, 50 years from now there will be people who will say that it did not happen. No matter the color, no matter the place, once men, women and children are sufficiently dehumanized by the regime in power, the results are always the same. The slaughter will take on a determined fortitude that evolves into a frenzy and does not abate until exhaustion or outside intervention brings it to a... [read full story]                    

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