DEAD AND MANGLED BODIES ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE
TESTIFY TO THE TRUTH OF AN IDEOLOGY

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RECOLLECTED IN TRANQUILITY:: TOWARD THE FINAL SOLUTION
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The desire to produce death (though political movements which we call war, genocide, revolution or terrorism) grows out of attachment to an ideology conceived as absolute.

Dying and killing are undertaken to validate the ideology (“proof of the pudding”). Dead and mangled bodies on the field of battle testify to the “truth” of the  entity or idea (the cause of the dying and killing). People cannot conceive that massive dying and killing occur in the name of no thing.
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The CSUN College of Social and Behavioral Sciences is pleased to present the Richard W. Smith Lecture in Culture Studies with special guest, Dr. Richard A. Koenigsberg. Psychologist, historian and leading authority on Hitler and Nazism