Alexandra Senfft, an author and Middle East expert, became acutely aware of her own family history only later in life. «By all means look at Mein Kampf and contextualize it,» says Senfft. «It is part of our history. What I am kind of hesitant about is identifying Hitler as Nazism as such. I find it much more important to not only focus on leaders but on how people on an every day level, ordinary people, latch on to the ideology.» One must ask, she says, why «the majority of ordinary Germans became perpetrators.»
The Daily Beast 01/09/2016
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