“Out-Hitlering Hitler”: Allied-Axis Moral Equivalence & the Dialectics of Violence
In contrast with the literal demonization of Hitler in Allied propaganda and postwar culture, Gandhi constantly morally equated Hitler’s violence with that of Churchill, Stalin, or Roosevelt. Read more …
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” – Mahatma Gandhi[1]
There are few world leaders in history who differ as starkly as Mohandas Gandhi and Adolf Hitler. The one is revered in his nation and throughout the world as the Mahatma, an apostle of nonviolence and non-discrimination. The Führer in contrast is officially and widely loathed both in his home country and across the West as a criminally insane warmonger pursuing of racial domination. Read more …
Gandhi & Hitler:
The Story of a Friendship, Part 3
Part 3 of 3
“Out-Hitlering Hitler”: Allied-Axis Moral Equivalence & the Dialectics of Violence
In contrast with the literal demonization of Hitler in Allied propaganda and postwar culture, Gandhi constantly morally equated Hitler’s violence with that of Churchill, Stalin, or Roosevelt. Read more …