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Part One: Oskar Dirlwanger: The Worst Nazi

Behind the Bastards

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The Fucking Fascist Hypothesis

A number of people who are proponents of the weak dictator hypothesis are fascists, including a guy named David Irving. Vonnegut quotes him in a slaughterhouse five because one of the things Irving did is he would write about how bad the Allied bombing campaigns were and he seems to have exaggerated the death count substantially but they weren't pretty bad. So you do run into people like Vonnegut who like cited Irving 50 something years, 60 years ago or whatever before he was a Nazi. And so Irving is at one point semi respected and then kind of turns into it. Now he is a hardcore Holocaust denier,. But that said, it's also worth noting that we're not done with Naz

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