Ofstad Nazism
If you look in the mirror of Nazism, we exaggerated our own traits, but for this detector. The essence of Nazism is anti-Semitism. The essence of National Socialism is the doctrine that the "strong" should rule over the "weak" and "weak" is despised precisely because "weak." Nazism was not born in Germany in the thirties and died in 1945. It expresses deep-seated trends, always living in and around us. We admire those who fight to excel and despise the losers. We consider ourselves free from the Nazis because they abhor the gas chambers, but we forget that these were only the extreme consequence of a philosophy he despised the "weak" and admired the "strong".
The brutality of Nazism was not only the product of certain historical conditions. It was also the result of a certain philosophy of life, a certain set of norms, values and perceptions of reality. While not experiencing the same situation, we act on the basis of many of those rules and principles of those.
ideas and attitudes of the Nazis were crucial. Yet, the investigation in this respect was negligible compared to the crimes committed. One of the reasons that could not be - perhaps unconsciously - it's easy to think of Nazism as something alien, if we take care of its mass killings, rather than its norms and values?
We can not exclude this possibility since it is clear that the distance will be reduced if we analyze the ideology of Nazism. In this case we are forced to recognize that was an extreme and abnormal expression of trends from which we - that we are not Nazis - we can not at all considered immune. I think not only States which engage the dictatorship, the brutal terror and oppression, as did the Nazis, but in general attitude toward life that rises to the ideal strength and virility, and despises weakness and helplessness. Contempt for the weak - for what the Nazis considered such - is the core of Nazism.
From the book by Harald Ofstad, Our Contempt for Weakness given to the Nobel Prize, page cited by Desmond Tutu, in Even God has a dream. Hope for our time , The anchor of the Mediterranean, Napoli 2004, pp. 42-43.
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