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Activities, but also in terms of i did logical mobilization in terms of propaganda, in terms of the way you motivate a populous in order go to total war. And i indicated to you that when various leaders talked about the war as being motivated by racial ideology in attempts to secure racial purity, theres a total lizing effect. So when Adolph Hitler talks about the destruction of the jews in 1939, very clearly thats the language of total war in its own way. Equally i spoke to you before about the language of human rights and the articulation of war aims by Franklin Roosevelt and the various oth...

You, you seek revenge, you retaliate, they interp fret pre as a wrong, they come back at you. The momentum of total lang wachbling war is sped onwards by the rhetoric and ideas of revenge. When hitler talks about the destruction of the jews, he phrases it in the language of revenge. He blames them, obviously, inappropriately, but he blames them for the german loss in world war i, he blamed it for the Great Depression and for starting world war ii. So it is an act of revenge, in part. Weve also seen of course the language of revenge in terms of the americans fighting the japanese in the pacific...

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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...

She was not quite 11 when train convoys organized by a London stockbroker carried her and hundreds of other Jewish children from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II.