Why so many books about the Nazis still?

Philip Kerr:

'I first started writing about and researching the subject in the mid-1980s. And to this end, a Jewish-American friend, Allen Reichmann, kindly arranged for me to meet with his father, a plumber and a survivor of Auschwitz. We drove to the family home in Washington Heights in northern Manhattan, where Mrs. Reichmann had prepared dinner. After we'd eaten, I listened with fascination as Mr. Reichmann explained how he and his brother had moved through the Reich, from one camp to another, installing luxury bathrooms in the homes of senior SS officers, including one Josef Mengele. That's almost a novel in itself. (They liked avocado-colored bathroom furniture.)'

Talk about truth stranger than fiction! Can you imagine living safely in Washington Heights after surviving the Holocaust as a Jew installing luxury bathrooms in the homes of SS officers? I must agree with Mr. Kerr that the Nazis were the greatest evil of the 20th century, though the Leninists and Maoists crowd the top of the list. Their love of death, and their ability to persuade people of all backgrounds to leave their moral scruples behind and kill innocent people for ideology, power, and the thrill of cruelty should always be studied.

What bugs me the most today, however, is that fascists in Islamic countries read the same texts, plot the annihilation of the Jews, hate Western civilization as it was passed down to us, and consider the death of millions to be the beginning of a new millennium. Readers of this blog know that I don't spit bile about Islam, though I will criticize it and its followers. Nonetheless, fascists who hijack the religion of one billion people in order to bring death to innocents need to be called what they are: fascists. There is not a dime's worth of difference between Baathism and Nazism, except that the Nazis gained power over more people.