Obviously a totalizing effect. When hitler talks about the destruction of the jews, that is clearly the language of total war. I talked to you about human rights. The way in which allied leaders promised that human rights would be secured everywhere in the world. Also a total guarantee. Other phrases that have a total izing quality are the terms Unconditional Surrender implying to had to be a total victory and no armistice. But i want to talk about a specific trope in the language of total war and that is the trope of revenge. Revenge, by its very nature, is a sort of ratchet. Somebody commits a wrong against you. You seek revenge. They retaliate. They interpret that as a wrong. They come back. And so on and so forth. The momentum of the language of total war is fed onwards by the rhetoric and the ideas of revenge. When hitler talks about the destruction of the jews, he phrases it in the language of the revenge. He blames them, obviously wrongly, for the defeat of the german luftwaffe
Lets talk about prague winter. You were 59 years old just being sworn in when you learned that your parents had been born jewish and that some of members of your family had been killed in the holocaust. You answered a lot of questions you dealt with it. It was a painful period what made you go back to it and write a whole book on the subject . Well, because i didnt think i had all the answers and and let me just explain a little bit of the context of how this happened when i was ambassador at the United Nations was when people started writing me letters. I hadnt really been a public figure till then and some of the people asked for money or visas and then there were letters that would Say Something about the village that my parents were born in or dates, but everything was wrong in them there never was a letter that had all the facts and i mean somebody saying that theyd gone to high school with my father in 1915, which would have been impossible because he was born in 1909, but in nov
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