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I am not sure if you were responding to my comment or not, but in case you were, my attitude is not, as you say: Hitleristic (interesting term) and I'm afraid that my point was perhaps misunderstood-so, I will attempt a brief clarification: life is most often not beautiful, you cannot endure the unendurable, millions were murdered-dead-did not survive-killed-vanquished-zeroed and gone. Get it? Gone-over-not here any more, deliberately and pointlessly made to suffer to death. That's what happened. No fantasy or movie or imagining or fairy tale feel good metaphors can change the UNMITTIGATED HORROR into something to feel good about! In fact, it is a damaging process that seems to have found a host in your personage, and you, unfortuanatly, are not alone. Mass hypnosis, mass denial, not uncommon. The world is not flat and leeches don't cure anything. The point of minimizing the unmitigated horror of genocide is as self-defeating as it is childish. "Thank God not everyone involved in the Holocaust had my attitude..." Can that be truly a serious comment? If the brutal and mechanized systematic murder of defensless civilians on a mass scale is not enough to sour ones attitude about the too often occuring nightmares of waking reality called euphemistically "life", then the type of denial being practiced in this case can possibly evoke the same type of thinking and rationalization that can lead to (by reducing the enormity of it's catastrophic effect) the very behavior it seeks to minimize.
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