This is a disgusting country, I thought, irredeemable visually, psychically, morally, and ethically, and whatever is likable about our people’s warm patter does not in any way forgive what we have done to the world. Furthermore, it isn’t hard to bring politeness and evil into view at the same time.
The nazis were exactly as lighthearted and bland as this. Once you dehumanize your victims, their suffering simply doesn’t weigh on you at all