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To AMR
author: ct
"You are attributing opinions to me that has never expressed by me.
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It never said by me and never crossed my mind; to me it seems that it crossed YOUR mind, but definitely not mine."
You are right, I don't remember a single line where you had said that you held that oppinion. It rather was my personal impression, so I should have made clear that it was just my impression and nothing else. Please take my apologies for not doing that.
"All the psychological tests found a NORMAL bunch of people, nothing that is outside of usual human deviation and conduct."
I've already heard about that, too. I think, Alice Miller mentiones it in her book. And if I'm not mistaken, she also speaks of a distinct, even with respect to that time extraordinary brutal and cruel SS unit, whose members drew the special attention of the psychological team conducting the tests.
The outcome of those tests were, as you said, that the members of this unit were not at all typical psychopaths or criminals, but rather "normal" people, who had been fairly well-functioning in civil live, i.e. before they were put into SS uniforms.
So the final results of those tests are the starting point for Alice Miller's own investigations. And her conclusions are what she sums up in the title of the original German version of her book: "Am Anfang war Erziehung" (At the beginning there was education).
I really think it might be interesting and helpful to you to read that book. The English version is available in the net, and probably there is a Hebrew version, too.
"The book’s conclusion is YES, it can happen again."
Sure it can. Given the appropriate circumstances...
Yet, for the time being, chances that it actually WILL happen to Jews again are very low. But it might happen to Palestinians pretty soon, if Israel proceeds on its current path...