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#136 – Dan Carlin: Hardcore History

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The Seeds of His Own Destruction

It's the darkest possible silver lining to think about is that the Holocaust may have been in the hatred of the Jewish people. May have been the thing that avoided Germany getting the nuclear weapons first. Isn't that a wonderful historical ironic twist? If it weren't so overlaid with tragedy, a thousand years from now will be seen as something really kind of funny. It's fascinating to think as you've talked... So the seeds of his own destruction, right? The tragic flaw. And my hope is... This is a discussion I have with my dad, as a physicist. Is that evil inherently contains with it that kind of incompetence.

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