Last night, I finished "Hitler's Scientists - Science, War and The Devil's Pact", by John Cornwell. Except for the last chapter in which he discusses more recent ethical issues showing obvious conceptual relationships to Nazi rationalizations (the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, etc.) (I do not need anyone telling me bad things still happen) - this was a good book full of information and a logical, steady build up of how Nazis - and average Germans - found their "excuses".

The scary truths include:

1) rationalizations creep up over time - they are NOT overnight changes,

2) greed can take normal people to such extremes, and,

3) the human need to belong is that powerful.

They are scary because they exist everyday in the air each of us breathes, despite our readiness to claim we are immune.

We should NEVER forget these facts.
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