Gloria Steinem
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last year, as part of a Jewish film festival, I saw a movie called Persian Lessons (a Jewish man buys himself time by pretending to know Farsi so he can “teach” a Nazi officer who wants to learn it) that did a really good job of showing this. The banality of evil, how mundane the life of a Nazi is, how anybody could become a Nazi, and how easily people who kept the wheels of the Nazi regime’s death machine could convince themselves that they’re not really part of it.