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A nation of willing executioners?

BACK in September 2006, in my column in the New Straits Times, I wrote on the book Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen.
It was a disturbing read. His contention was that those responsible for the extermination of Jews were not just Nazi party members or SS men but “ordinary Germans of all walks of life, men (and women) who brutalised and murdered Jews both willingly and zealously”.
Blaming the entire German populace as complicit to one of the worst atrocities ever inflicted upon any particular race is, to say the least, shocking.
Goldhagen’s book fuelled a massive debate both in Germany and the United States. Historians were divided. Some hailed it as a monumental work, others lambasted it as nothing more than an attention grabber. One prominent Holocaust scholar found the contention “totally wrong”. ....

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Imperial ambitions of tech giants

World domination: The logos of Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft displayed on a mobile phone and a laptop screen. The Big Four – Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google – are now seen as too powerful and ‘harmful’. Meanwhile, Microsoft was the subject of an anti-trust case in the United States in the 1990s. AFP
IN one of the senate hearings in Washington, DC, in April 2018, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was asked by Senator Dick Durbin where he stayed the night before. Would Zuckerberg be comfortable to share it with him? Zuckerberg understandably said no after a long pause.
Durbin asked Zuckerberg whether he would like to share the names of people he messaged that week. He answered that he would choose not to do that publicly at the hearing. ....

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