What is your opinion about the continuous debate around Knut Hamsun in the Norwegian press, specially during fall 2004 ?
I have no opinion, just some remarks to evident contradictions in the winners’ philosophy. The endlessness of the debate around Knut Hamsun is just an indication of such contradictions. In 1945 the winners invested themselves with moral authority over what is good and what is evil in modern politics. It’s the winners’ right during some years – until reconciliation is sought. Nazism became so Evil in their conception and judgement that the Nazism had to be minimized. Otherwise the very size of Evil threatened to overwhelm and contaminate the winners. The apotheosis of Evil came when the concept of Holocaust was launched in 1960-1961. Nazism and Fascism were correct philosophies and policies in pre-war European societies and as such gathered the majority of the citizens in Western Europe. They were embraced by the Catholic Church, Europe’s oldest organization. The process of denazification imposed by the Americans in 1945 ended up with minimization of the huge social reality of Nazism an
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