Letters

摘要

Christopher hitchens, in his mas-terful review of Pat Buchanan's revisionist book "Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War" ("A War Worth Fighting," June 23), makes the point that the "Nazis could and should have been confronted before they had fully rearmed and had begun to steal the factories ... and workers of neighboring countries." What he fails to mention is that even people in other parts of Europe were to some extent captivated by National Socialism, which explains why Western leaders were reluctant to deal with Hitler during the first few years of his rule, when he was weak militarily. And his own opponents within Germany believed that by swallowing the small doses of National Socialism that were offered to them in the beginning, they would be able to avoid the greater evil later on. The result was that the total of the "lesser evils" added up precisely to that greater evil they had hoped to escape.