…like so much popular movies, another popular movie called Munich, not Spielberg, but about 38 negotiations between Chamberlain and Spielberg. Hitler in New League. There is a debate between an English guy who says we should negotiate endlessly. There is…

…carefully what I said. For example, when I, and this was the most problematic statement, when I said the problem with Hitler was that he wasn't violent enough. You can imagine people. That's pretty problematic. Yeah, but you know what is then problematic?…

…know what is then problematic? second part of the same statement, in the sense in which Gandhi was more violent than Hitler. It's clear that I'm not talking about killing, physical violence. I'm talking about radical change in social system. And my point…

…misunderstood, not transphobic. Okay, I admit partial guilt because I like to provoke. Well, I think that's the whole issue with Hitler as well. No, Hitler didn't like to just provoke. No, no, I'm saying you invoke Hitler because you wanted to provoke,…

…Okay, I admit partial guilt because I like to provoke. Well, I think that's the whole issue with Hitler as well. No, Hitler didn't like to just provoke. No, no, I'm saying you invoke Hitler because you wanted to provoke, which is dangerous. But I…

…I think that's the whole issue with Hitler as well. No, Hitler didn't like to just provoke. No, no, I'm saying you invoke Hitler because you wanted to provoke, which is dangerous. But I will tell you now something else to conclude in a more serious…

…a public statement of Ed, he said that George Soros owns the biggest gas chamber in Europe, that he is worse than Hitler, that his He's spreading a cyanide-like poison, which is called multicultural tolerance. And in this sense, he is today's Hitler. He…

…worse than Hitler, that his He's spreading a cyanide-like poison, which is called multicultural tolerance. And in this sense, he is today's Hitler. He says this, more dangerous than Hitler, and so on and so on. Now people who accuse sometimes even you of…

…a cyanide-like poison, which is called multicultural tolerance. And in this sense, he is today's Hitler. He says this, more dangerous than Hitler, and so on and so on. Now people who accuse sometimes even you of anti-Semitism, I tell them, sorry, this is…

…reports are true. The populist story about them is a lie. With anti-Semitism, we are approaching the topic of telling stories. Hitler was one of the greatest storytellers of the 20th century. In the 1920s, Many Germans experienced their situation as a…

…They didn't understand what is happening to them with military defeat, economic crisis, what they perceived as moral decay and so on. Hitler provided a story, a plot, which was precisely that of a Jewish plot. We are in this mess because of the Jews.…

…and they are mostly stupid, is an enemy is someone whose story you have not heard. Really? Are you also ready to affirm that Hitler was our enemy because his story was not heard? The experience that we have of our lives from within, the story we tell…

…I applauded. No, you know what's the joke. Did you notice this beautiful difference between Nazism and Stalinism? In Nazism, when Hitler speaks, the public applauds and the leader just accepts the applause. In Stalinism, the leader stands up and joins the…

…on and so on. I mean, Austria, the nicest, most gentle country in Europe, gave birth to a certain guy close to Linz, I think, Hitler, and so on. No, you know what I mean here. I mean this. You know where I would be more skeptical than you. That's…

…figure on the top that saves us from the fascist, the risk of fascism. A fascist leader is a figure of fate. Hitler would never has said, oh, it could have been another guy. Unfortunately, Stalin also not. There's a problem with so-called totalitarianism.…

…price of it because of this, there were at least two, three millions more people dead and were too dragged for, was for Hitler. I think end of 42, Stalingrad and so on, he nominated Albert Speer, who was an administrative genius, the Minister of Defense,…

…making is that usually in classical Marxism and so on, it's what you quoted, Todd, that idea of, you know, if not Hitler, then another guy. They see that the elective of contingency and necessity in this term, history has a general necessity, but it's…

…needed to contain the crisis, some kind of fascist dictatorship. But it was historical contingency that Napoleon, sorry, that Hitler came. I said Napoleon because Plekhanov, the father of dialectical materialism, uses the example of Napoleon here. The French…

…were just ill, too weak, the burden, and so on and so on. Those who will survive will be, it's the Nazi logic, Hitler practiced this. This is why, as you probably know, Hitler wasn't killing just Jews and Roma. the gypsies. Hitler was also killing…

…and so on. Those who will survive will be, it's the Nazi logic, Hitler practiced this. This is why, as you probably know, Hitler wasn't killing just Jews and Roma. the gypsies. Hitler was also killing mentally disabled, old, and so on, and so on. And I…

…it's the Nazi logic, Hitler practiced this. This is why, as you probably know, Hitler wasn't killing just Jews and Roma. the gypsies. Hitler was also killing mentally disabled, old, and so on, and so on. And I still think that I still think that this is…

…oh, there are no enemies, enemies, somebody to whom you are not ready to listen to, my answer is, ah, good to learn. So Hitler was our enemy because we were not ready to listen to him or whatever. No, I think the more... I know about and understand…

…was our enemy because we were not ready to listen to him or whatever. No, I think the more... I know about and understand Hitler, the more he is my enemy. Now comes my lesson. The experience that we have of our lives from within, the stories we tell…

…a socialist today. Bill Gates says he's a socialist and so on. It's meaningless. Socialism basically means today you care for society. Hitler cared for society. I don't care. You know, I just want to signal that, as you nicely said now, something a little…

…take it seriously and so on? And once they were asked, are you a fascist? And one of them said, I am a fascist like Hitler was a painter. What answer is that? I don't know. But why can't they just say, I'm not a fascist? And then you could say,…

…reports are true. The populist story about them is a lie. With anti-Semitism, we are approaching the topic of telling stories. Hitler was one of the greatest storytellers of the 20th century. In the 1920s, Many Germans experienced their situation as a…

…They didn't understand what is happening to them with military defeat, economic crisis, what they perceived as moral decay, and so on. Hitler provided a story, a plot, which was precisely that of a Jewish plot. We are in this mess because of the Jews.…

…are mostly stupid, is an enemy is someone whose story you have not heard. Really? Really? Are you also ready to affirm that Hitler was our enemy because his story was not heard? The experience that we have of our lives from within, the story we tell…

…like to do. The best Marxist books are always reports on the failure, you know, very convincing books on why things went wrong, why Hitler had to win in Germany, why Stalin had to win in Soviet Union, and so on and so on. I think that, again... What…

…you know. That... An enemy is somebody whom we were not ready to listen to, to hear his story. Ah, nice to hear this. So Hitler was our enemy because we did. No, we have to accept it. There are real enemies out there. It may be Islamists, it may be…

…spite of his... that unfortunate answer he gave. Although I had to laugh so much, you remember that answer at the Cannes Festival? Yes, Hitler must be worried when he was bombed. Now an irony, I had to laugh so much then I checked it. You know whom he…

…I read a selection of his statements from his diary when in 44, early 45 he wrote, nonetheless in spite of all his crimes Hitler must feel now terribly isolated in that bunker and so on and so on. What I'm saying is that this makes me the strange,…

…find them now all on YouTube, and you compare big speeches, I'm sorry, some of you know this detail, by Stalin and by Hitler. It's typical how when Hitler or a fascist leader speaks, at the end the crowd applauds and the leader just receives the…

…and you compare big speeches, I'm sorry, some of you know this detail, by Stalin and by Hitler. It's typical how when Hitler or a fascist leader speaks, at the end the crowd applauds and the leader just receives the applause. A Stalinist leader always…

…him all the best and so on. In Nazism, this is unthinkable. Collect all the Jews in Auschwitz to send a telegram to Hitler or whatever. So what I'm saying is that even if you are the lowest trash, you... Stalinism, unfortunately, in this sense, is still…

…Trump tweets, it has more to do with occlocracy in the sense of Polybius, than with monarchy or tyranny. If you think of Hitler, Hitler made use of what was modern technology at his time, that is radio, the voice of Hitler, was in fact the basis…

…Trump tweets, it has more to do with occlocracy in the sense of Polybius, than with monarchy or tyranny. If you think of Hitler, Hitler made use of what was modern technology at his time, that is radio, the voice of Hitler, was in fact the basis of…

…had his oldest son, Vittorio Mussolini, who was, as far as you can imagine, a relatively good guy. And Mussolini was not Hitler. They tolerated some, even leftists there. The idea was You do your cinema criticism, you do the movies. So, another great…

…story we were not ready to listen. I explode here. This is the greatest stupidity I've ever heard. So why don't they apply to Hitler? Will you say Hitler was our enemy? Ah, because we were not ready to listen to him. No, those who did listen to…

…to listen. I explode here. This is the greatest stupidity I've ever heard. So why don't they apply to Hitler? Will you say Hitler was our enemy? Ah, because we were not ready to listen to him. No, those who did listen to Hitler, like Winston Churchill…

…Hitler? Will you say Hitler was our enemy? Ah, because we were not ready to listen to him. No, those who did listen to Hitler, like Winston Churchill from the beginning, knew that he really is an enemy. This is, here I am not a Schmittian in his…

…said, you may remember, when Netanyahu proposed the totally crazy theory that it was really Palestinians, that Hosseini, who suggested to Hitler, I mean, Hitler met him once, when the Holocaust was already in process. And there is no document that this…

…when Netanyahu proposed the totally crazy theory that it was really Palestinians, that Hosseini, who suggested to Hitler, I mean, Hitler met him once, when the Holocaust was already in process. And there is no document that this really happened. But…

…cannot even imagine the same thing in Nazism. That they would collect all the Jews, make them sign a telegram to Hitler or whatever. Another thing. In Stalinism, you have these great show trials, you know. Bukharin leaders accused of treason confess. You…

…ask me, Stalinist and fascist terror. Fascist terror was directed against perceived or imagined enemies. The inner purges were minimal. After in 34 Hitler got rid of SA, he had to do this to get rid of the brutal facts to fascism. be able to function as…

…social life, which fits today's permissive capitalism. I claim that already in so-called totalitarianism, to understand how figures like Hitler, Stalin functioned, they are not paternal figures. They are not figures of the father. In order to properly develop…

…an enemy is someone whose story we were not ready to listen. Yes, up to a certain point, but wait a minute. Will you tell Hitler was our enemy because we were not ready to listen? No, the more you listen to him, the more you do discover that he is…

…a way in, if such a thing still exists, which I doubt more and more, real emancipatory politics. Let's say you have Hitler. I think it's somehow inappropriate to say that we should be complaining about Hitler. No, you simply diagnose him as evil, let's…

…real emancipatory politics. Let's say you have Hitler. I think it's somehow inappropriate to say that we should be complaining about Hitler. No, you simply diagnose him as evil, let's liquidate him. I don't think that when Jews were talking about horrors in…

…the whole of philosophy. But he wasn't doing it enough, because you corrupt the youth and then you end up appropriated by Hitler, you know. Although Nietzsche was a much nicer person. For example, he was always proud about his Polish ancestry. Not exactly…

…unbeatable. That's his dream. Ah, that's the Nietzsche that I like. Well, you are famous for saying that Gandhi was more violent than Hitler, aren't you? But I meant it in a positive sense. No, no, sorry. For me, what I mean there by violence is, of…

…embarrassing questions. So I was active all the time to make it sure that nothing changes. And there was something of this in Hitler. It was while Gandhi, whatever you say, and I'm very critical of Gandhi, with all his nonviolence and so on and so on,…

…the resistance against fascism. It is a comedy dealing with a Polish theater company who kind of impersonates Gestapo and even Hitler in order to protect the Polish resistance. A wonderful movie, you will all enjoy it, whoever stays here. My question, my…

…is acting a good Nazi, and so on. You know, like, really at the beginning of the film, after the famous, I'll myself Hitler, no? The director accuses an actor, he says, but listen, you're not like Hitler. You're just an ordinary guy who tries to be…

…of the film, after the famous, I'll myself Hitler, no? The director accuses an actor, he says, but listen, you're not like Hitler. You're just an ordinary guy who tries to be Hitler. And the actor, but this was Hitler. An ordinary guy who wanted…

…no? The director accuses an actor, he says, but listen, you're not like Hitler. You're just an ordinary guy who tries to be Hitler. And the actor, but this was Hitler. An ordinary guy who wanted to act like Hitler. And can I conclude with a really…

…he says, but listen, you're not like Hitler. You're just an ordinary guy who tries to be Hitler. And the actor, but this was Hitler. An ordinary guy who wanted to act like Hitler. And can I conclude with a really dirty joke that I learned in Palestine,…

…like... Somebody is an enemy because I fetishized him, but if I were to... Now I will tell you, ah, it's good to learn. So Hitler was our enemy because, you know, we were not open to his side of the story and so on. That's my first reproach. No,…

…to his side of the story and so on. That's my first reproach. No, sorry, there are real enemies. And I'm sure that Hitler will be able to tell you a wonderful, sincere, warm story. But I think, and here I'm anti-postmodernist, the story we tell…

…Because, you know, socialism is not a word which divides enough. Everyone is today a socialist, my God. Not only Der Fuhrer, Hitler was a national socialist, but Bill Gates and somewhere. If by socialism you mean taking care of the poor, trying to make…

…say that the very situation which was in the early 90s where we were boasting, like the big motto of left and right was Like Hitler said in 1933, give us four years and you will have no employment. Our motto was, give us four years and we will be…

…even try to rehabilitate Mussolini, like he did it pretty well, it was just a tragic mistake that in 1939, whatever, he joined Hitler and so on. You know... So, again, this shift changes all the coordinates. Because here, if you don't believe me, I will…

…naive, I know, but at least they were there. Sorry, but I don't remember any movement in Germany where Nazis would have accused Hitler of betraying the true principles of Nazism and so on. You know, communism was a fake, but it was a fake, tragic…

…it can be much worse. You know, now you sound for me like those communists in 33 who, they said, who cares about Hitler even before we had it anyway, bourgeois dictatorship. Yes, but there is a slight difference, you know. No, but really, really, what I…

…of that old pseudo-radical left strategy result was Nazism, where you know that how Communist Party reacted first to the threat of Hitler taking power. It was even better because now at least all illusions will fall and we will have clearly the enemy…

…deutsche and so on. It sounded so dirty, obscene. Doesn't Chaplin do something of the same? Don't underestimate him in his of Hitler, where you have Hitler deprived of his message, reduced to these vulgar obscenities and so on. You see this raw emotional…

…It sounded so dirty, obscene. Doesn't Chaplin do something of the same? Don't underestimate him in his of Hitler, where you have Hitler deprived of his message, reduced to these vulgar obscenities and so on. You see this raw emotional material. And I think…

…emotional material. And I think Rammstein is doing something similar. They are directly confronting you with the obscenity of Hitler. totalitarian nationalist rituals, but in this way they are much more radically undermining it. After you see Chaplin, great…

…when you turn off the sound? the gestures become ridiculous. Something at a similar level is what Chaplin does to Hitler there. You remember that famous speech where, it's really like Carlton or what, he speaks some totally incomprehensible strange language,…

…this is what I tried to say, the point with that statement which caused me so much trouble even now. The problem with Hitler is that he wasn't violent enough. No, he wasn't able to do systemic violence, which is why he had to do Kristallna, that…

…systemic violence, which is why he had to do Kristallna, that this is in Nietzsche's sense reactive violence. I don't want to concede to Hitler even this evil greatness of, my God, the guy was evil, but he had balls. No, he was a coward. He didn't have…

…for me, to make a good example, for example, Gandhi was for me, as I like to say, to provoke people more violent than Hitler, because Hitler was a coward. Gandhi, whatever he was, he wasn't a coward. Didi, transformation and so on and so on. Okay, the…

…make a good example, for example, Gandhi was for me, as I like to say, to provoke people more violent than Hitler, because Hitler was a coward. Gandhi, whatever he was, he wasn't a coward. Didi, transformation and so on and so on. Okay, the limits of…

…of course, the wound is historically decoded as syphilis. Every statement of Wagner is put in context to prove Wagner, Hitler, and so on. But then we get to Nietzsche, And it's unbelievable how the way postmodernists like Nietzsche, redeem Nietzsche,…

…are. Now, this is for me a very interesting thought. So in... I first learned from him that. So in 1940, we should have said Hitler is horrible, but don't resist him. If we strike back, we will, and so on. So again, my point is that I cannot, what I…

…there to speak the language of the enemy. So this is this. Sometimes in war, tense situation, you have to, like against Hitler, if I may be pathetic, of course you have to strike with all brutal violence you can imagine. Sometimes, I'm very pragmatic…

…provoked with my I admit it, I like to provoke, and I got into trouble. Like when I said the problem with Hitler was that he wasn't violent enough, there was some misunderstanding. That's because your critics, including he who shall remain nameless, they…

…claim is that you don't find the same tragic aspect in nazism you cannot say nazism was originally a great emancipatory project Hitler just screwed it up, whatever. No, Nazism is much more vulgar. There were bad guys, Hitler and his friends, who said, if…

…was originally a great emancipatory project Hitler just screwed it up, whatever. No, Nazism is much more vulgar. There were bad guys, Hitler and his friends, who said, if we take power, we will do some bad, horrible things. And look what happened. They…

…it to 10 minutes each maximum? Oh, that's... Yeah, yeah, that's okay. You know, I'm afraid because, like, you know, like, it's like Hitler meeting someone and telling, how could you treat the Jewish boy in such a bad way, you know? I feel like that, you…

…invented to create the false unity of the people and thus cover up the imminent societies, antagonisms of a society. Why did Hitler need Jews? So that he could focus in an external threat, we eliminate the Jews, our society will be harmonious again and…

…my answer to them is, really? Then we were taught wrong. Do you remember in 1945 there were negotiations and a pact with Hitler? No, it wasn't. There was a clear defeat. So again, this general pacifist stance, has to be rejected on behalf of real peace…

…all state honors, and so on and so on. His idea was that fascism was good. He supported, to the end, Mussolini, Hitler, the West, and Hitler. But that their... Their fascism was too much under the influence of Western mechanical society, too industrial,…

…so on and so on. His idea was that fascism was good. He supported, to the end, Mussolini, Hitler, the West, and Hitler. But that their... Their fascism was too much under the influence of Western mechanical society, too industrial, and that the only true…

…we have something to learn, is that words are not, never only words. Take the case, I'm not comparing nonetheless Putin with Hitler, but take the case of Germany. Do you know that when Hitler took power in 1933, This was the predominant attitude,…

…Take the case, I'm not comparing nonetheless Putin with Hitler, but take the case of Germany. Do you know that when Hitler took power in 1933, This was the predominant attitude, unfortunately, among the Jews there. He just needs this rhetoric to take…

…somehow have to be at least partially on the good side. But my point is very brutal one. I'm not comparing Putin with Hitler, but what would you then say Germany 1939? Let's give... Isn't this the same logic? Let's give to Hitler Czechoslovakia just to…

…history, an English guy who has a series of them, about how the West and Russia decide to go to war after Hitler occupied Czechoslovakia. And it's a totally different picture. The war drags on, but they somehow limit Hitler, he doesn't succeed to get…

…decide to go to war after Hitler occupied Czechoslovakia. And it's a totally different picture. The war drags on, but they somehow limit Hitler, he doesn't succeed to get all of France, and it's like, it doesn't develop... So I think that crazy as it may…

…I know, I know. Yeah, yeah. Keep and false equivalent. Sorry, I'm absolutely not putting on the same level like Putin is Hitler or whatever. I'm just saying it's a clear aggression, and don't relativize it. And it's an aggression behind which there is a…

…very much for your patience. Stop, stop. I'm here referring to, did you see Chaplin's The Great Dictator, where people applaud, hinkle Hitler, and then Hitler makes, ah, and they stop applauding. I'm tempted to act like this. Okay, let me do some Q&A now.…

…for your patience. Stop, stop. I'm here referring to, did you see Chaplin's The Great Dictator, where people applaud, hinkle Hitler, and then Hitler makes, ah, and they stop applauding. I'm tempted to act like this. Okay, let me do some Q&A now. I owe it…

…a certain vision, different visions. You know, if you just play this game, victims, victims. My God, in this way you can justify Hitler. You can say which is in a way true. Hitler was a reaction to the unjust peace of Versailles. where in an unfair…

…you just play this game, victims, victims. My God, in this way you can justify Hitler. You can say which is in a way true. Hitler was a reaction to the unjust peace of Versailles. where in an unfair way, and I'm not a Nazi if I say this, Communist…

…20s and so on, that the way in Versailles peace Germany was treated was unjust. Okay, but does this mean that we don't fight Hitler? Does this mean that we say, sorry, we are responsible for it and so on and so on? That's one line of thought.…

…you, I just fetishize you as the terrifying other. Now, whenever I hear this, my first reaction is, oh, that's good to know. So Hitler was our enemy because we were not ready to understand him and so on. No, fuck you. There are real enemies. And the…

…There are real enemies. And the more, and for example, the wisdom of Winston Churchill said, was that he was listening to Hitler from the very beginning. And he knew it immediately that Hitler is even more dangerous than Soviet Union, than Stalin. And as…

…see your sights. I am opposed to this. Why? Because, okay, let's again make a simple mental experiment. Let's replace enemy with Hitler. Would you also say, ooh, ooh, Hitler was our enemy because we didn't hear his story or whatever? No. I mean, the…

…this. Why? Because, okay, let's again make a simple mental experiment. Let's replace enemy with Hitler. Would you also say, ooh, ooh, Hitler was our enemy because we didn't hear his story or whatever? No. I mean, the presupposition of this is that the…

…presupposition of this is that the stories that people are telling themselves about themselves are truth. No. They can be lies, I think. Hitler did horrible things. The truth is in what he did. And the story, his side of the story, as it were, his side…

…but more of manipulation, would have been a horrible book, boring. But I tried to read, I managed one third of it. Hitler, Mein Kampf, Mache Strache. If you ask the simple question, did Hitler really believe in the bullshit he was writing? The answer…

…But I tried to read, I managed one third of it. Hitler, Mein Kampf, Mache Strache. If you ask the simple question, did Hitler really believe in the bullshit he was writing? The answer is incredible. Yes and no. In the sense that he was obviously…

…Yeah, I do. Germany, I like it today because they knew, they're very well aware of the dangers of false patriotism. My God, Hitler was there, you know. And that's why I think they shouldn't be afraid of a little bit of patriotism, Germans, you know.…

…had in mind, remember that throughout the 1920s in Germany, basically till late 20s, Nazis, not neo-Nazis, they were the original, Nazis, Hitler, were perceived as a farce. Now, the only thing I can answer to this is that it's not an objective argument…

…you know, precisely this denialism. And so it's not so simple. I think that if you look at successful right-wing fascist leaders like Hitler, He was even more hysterical and so on than Trump in the public. But at the same time, he was more successful in…

…and family, where they pointed out that, okay, family, bourgeois, false freedom, paternal authority, but they saw very well that Hitler is not a paternal authority. Hitler was mini-Trump in the sense that all these obscenities shouting in public that, again,…

…okay, family, bourgeois, false freedom, paternal authority, but they saw very well that Hitler is not a paternal authority. Hitler was mini-Trump in the sense that all these obscenities shouting in public that, again, Hitler plays a hysterical, dissatisfied…

…that Hitler is not a paternal authority. Hitler was mini-Trump in the sense that all these obscenities shouting in public that, again, Hitler plays a hysterical, dissatisfied child. He is this kind of obscene baby king. So the idea is this one, that we…

…Israel and Turkey. Yes. And I mean, you know, like there's obviously a historic quarter in Jerusalem of Armenians. The Hitler alluded to planning the genocide or the Holocaust based on the Armenian genocide. It's very perverted. Yeah. This is, yeah,…

…The only way to avoid regression to a position of beautiful soul is to endorse the second option, that our castigation of Hitler as evil must be a reflexive determination of the evil that persists in ourselves. And this way to read forgiving recollection…

…a reflexive determination of the evil that persists in ourselves. And this way to read forgiving recollection is very, with regard to Hitler, is very popular today. This is even in... As beloved American, our President Trump would have put it, even in this…

…of a country, he used it for other things. Here in Slovenia, all the right-wingers there, they say, yeah, yeah, Hitler made mistakes, but he should be recollectively recollectively forgiven because he was fighting although in a wrong exaggerated way the…

…equal responsibility on the part of the unsuccessful forgiver. I ask a totally naive question. Does this mean that when we condemn Hitler, we should also say, yes, but we didn't reflect enough, our stance is... or to quote Brandon, one must trust that…

…does something bad, but without knowing, it leads to a good result. And I met in Israel some radical Zionists who rehabilitate Hitler in this way. They said he was bad, but objectively, Without Holocaust, there wouldn't have been a state of Israel. So,…

…sense of that we should counter today's vulgar, too brutal, monopolizing capitalism with a return to Adam Smith. I don't believe that. Hitler. You know, one thing which fascinates me, we were talking about cynicism. I read, it's a very boring book, I read…

…we were talking about cynicism. I read, it's a very boring book, I read Mein Kampf. It was one question only interested me. Did Hitler believe or not in his own theory, in his own... And you know what's the conclusion that I came to? It's a very…

…good guy who apologized. But you know that he's personally responsible for the war dragging so long. One very good decision by Hitler was, was it early 43 or even a little earlier, when he named Albert Speer armament minister. and the production went up,…

…hero. My ultimate German version of Antigone would have been, sorry for the tastelessness, but I like to be tasteless. What if Adolf Hitler had a sister? And she said in May 1945, came into Russian, okay, you killed him now, I obey to a higher gazette,…

…had one big triumph. If by communism we mean reign of the Communist Party, it's China. I don't think very rarely in Hitler of humanity How did the Chinese succeed? The 20th century European left hated two things. Authoritarian state power and brutal market…

…always suspicious about those... Liberal leftist critics could say, yes, fascism, mass movement, coordinated masses. But are you aware that Hitler took this from social democracy? That originally... I know you will say this. Five years more in gulag. No, no,…

…No warm human person and so on and so on. And this is for me, the moment of truth. All totalitarian leaders speak Stalin, Hitler played the opposite game. You know, I do cruel thing on behalf of the big cause I'm standing for, but privately I like…

…is the one of an enemy is the person to whose story we were not ready to listen. I say, hello, are you serious? So Hitler was our enemy because we were not ready to listen to his story. I think that if we can learn anything from 20th century history…

…Something like an enemy is somebody to whose story we were not ready to listen. Something like that. My reaction is, oh, thanks. So Hitler was our enemy because we were not ready to listen to his story or whatever. My point is not that if you listen…

…So Hitler was our enemy because we were not ready to listen to his story or whatever. My point is not that if you listen to Hitler, you saw that he is really evil and so on and so on. My point is that... The true ethical dimension is in what you…

…you always, that's how you succeed legitimizing brutal dictators. That you say, and you can of course say about anybody. I'm sure Hitler probably liked small children and dogs and cats and whatever. Of course, if you look closely, every, no matter how bad…

…in rage is An enemy is somebody to whose story we were not ready to listen. So I always say, ah, that's good to know. Hitler is our enemy because we were not ready to, you know. And my point is not only that his story was also horrible intimately.…

…mine, but... This is the difference between Stalinism and fascism, similar as they may appear. A fascist master is a pure master. Hitler gives a speech, people applaud, Hitler just stands up and receives the applause. Check it out if you don't believe me…

…Stalinism and fascism, similar as they may appear. A fascist master is a pure master. Hitler gives a speech, people applaud, Hitler just stands up and receives the applause. Check it out if you don't believe me in old... documents from communist party…

…all a charade, it's horrible spectacle, but the truth about yourself, in fascism this doesn't work. It would have been easy for Hitler to organize a mega trial of leading Jewish figures in Germany where they would have to confess the Jewish plot or…

…stories. Yes, but to say this is not enough for me. Stories are ideology. Okay, speaking about stories, just a brief point. Hitler was one of the greatest storytellers of the 20th century. What did he do? Germany in the 1920s. Total ideological confusion.…

…the 1920s. Total ideological confusion. People were at a loss. Economic crisis. What they perceived as moral degradation. What's going on? Hitler provided a perfect, simple story. It's all the Jewish plot. And all of a sudden, ordinary Germans lived in a…

…fetishize the enemy. We are not ready to hear his side of the story. But this procedure clearly has a limit. Would you say that Hitler was our enemy because we were not ready to listen to his story? No. The more you listen to his story, the more you…

…stories to give meaning to our life. Yes, but what kind of stories? One of the greatest storytellers of the 20th century Hitler. He did in a model way exactly this. Remember Germany 1920s. Great confusion and so on. People lacked a consistent story.…

…Germany 1920s. Great confusion and so on. People lacked a consistent story. Economic crisis, what they perceived as moral crisis, social chaos. Hitler, in a play with words that I like, because you heard only in English, maybe I'm wrong, I don't know, this…

…multiculturalist proverb saying another stupidity must as wisdom an enemy is someone whose story we were not ready to listen Ah, really? So Hitler was our enemy because we were not ready to listen to his story. So if we were to... No, no, there are real…

…Vienna, and so on. So... Right-wingers like to quote an unfortunate passage, you know, to make their anti-communist point that Hitler just took the idea of Holocaust from Marx. Because in an unfortunate formulation, Engels writes there that when revolutionary…

…people, crowd, and so on and so on. I mean, this is how totalitarianism functions. You know, officially, or let's say Hitler, again, officially it is enough of Weimar decadence, order, sacrifice, the country needs you. But the message, when you put the…

…Many of my friends even told me how deeply they were impressed by, like, now I understand how fascism grasped the people. Why was Hitler such a success and so on and so on. But I think that, well, I will be very provocative here. I think that there…

…The same already in 1939 or when, Chaplin in his true masterpiece, I claim, The Great Dictator. Remember the famous scene where Hitler gives a speech in some totally obscene language where all we recognize is from time to time a vulgar German word like…

…will not be a neo-Nazi. You will definitely not be. You know, when people say, Oba, isn't this kind of a Nazi meeting, Hitler? No, the point is that it's there when we're looking at Hitler's speeches. He was, of course, playing with all this hysteria,…

…of course, playing with all this hysteria, but like, not directly. You just have to push it a little bit further and Hitler becomes ridiculous. And that's what they are doing here. It's much more effective than criticizing it from the outside. Okay, you…

…of ideology. At its most basic, ideology is the primordial version of augmented reality. To simplify things to the utmost. Did Hitler not offer the Germans the fantasy frame of Nazi ideology, which made them to see a specific Pokemon, the Jew, popping…

…I think that then I go into this example. Okay, this sounds something very deep, you know, but would you say the same about Hitler? No, so there are limits. So no, I think when you have an authentic evil, the more you understand it, the more you must…

…said, an enemy is somebody whose story you were not prepared to listen. My reaction was, ah, good to know, so Stalin and Hitler are our enemies because we did not listen. No, there is something terribly wrong in this ideology of just open yourself to…

…you know what answer he got from them? I love it. Because it was the... You know that usual partial rehabilitation of Hitler? Yeah, Hitler did many horrible things like Holocaust, but he also did some good things like trains run on time, highways, and…

…know what answer he got from them? I love it. Because it was the... You know that usual partial rehabilitation of Hitler? Yeah, Hitler did many horrible things like Holocaust, but he also did some good things like trains run on time, highways, and so on.…

…trains run on time, highways, and so on. You know what answer he got from these people? He said, no, we are against Hitler. Because although he did some good things, But he did some horrible things, like building all the highways that spoiled our nature.…

…still relatively decentralized. They have so many civic life institutions and so on and so on. So Trump cannot simply behave like Hitler and centralize the government or whatever, you know. But He is doing the best. And that's, I think, the tragedy of…

…point... Use this idea, but this is the same as to say, some crazy communist did say in 33, it's better to have Hitler in power. Now, the fronts are clear. Note, I'm not saying this. It's a specific statement about United States. For example, I'm not…

…but the moment you really are ready to hear his side, Maybe, but in a very limited way, I claim. Would you say that Hitler was our enemy because we were not ready to listen to him or what? No, sorry. Okay, I'm telling you now something very well…

…telling you now something very well known. But nonetheless, the greatness of Churchill was that he was reading. He was listening to Hitler already in the early 30s and knew it. So, you know, we have to accept that there are authentic enemies, where the…

…in Nazism. On Hitler's birthday, to gather all the inmates of Auschwitz and make them sign a... congratulation message to Hitler, it's meaningless. Another point, the Stalinist show trials, you know where the tortured prisoners admit, yes, I collaborated in a…

…to overthrow and kill Comrade Stalin. Such a thing doesn't Cannot happen. Doesn't have any place in the Nazi or fascist universe. Hitler could have easily done the same. Select some visible important Jewish figures and claim there is a plot again and you…

…how I like to proceed. Take some small insignificant details. Oh my God, look, Stalin's documentary. stands up and joins the applause. Hitler doesn't. And this is for me the proper Freudian reading, through this type of details. And then from this you see…

…browsing the web, three-fourth, well-organized, ten-hour miniseries documentaries which, not between the lines implicit, but fully, explicitly rehabilitate Hitler. They bring together all these elements which echo even a little bit in Jordan Peterson and so on.…

…I can write a book And I can guarantee you, every detail will be, all data will be true. Convincingly demonstrating that Hitler was justified in bemoaning the excessive influence of Jews in Germany in the late 20s and early 1930s, it's simply true. 40%…

…revolution, and then Jews directly financed the October Revolution to deal a blow to Russia, a staunch defendant of Christianity. Hitler was a peaceful... who, after being democratically elected, changed Germany from a devastated land to a welfare country with…

…dupe us. Christian Western people, they're really working together to destroy Europe. And it's, I mean, it's absolutely full rehabilitation of Hitler, and it ends up quite shamelessly with how only Hitler, a new Hitler, can save us. The problem is, I think…

…together to destroy Europe. And it's, I mean, it's absolutely full rehabilitation of Hitler, and it ends up quite shamelessly with how only Hitler, a new Hitler, can save us. The problem is, I think this is not just an exaggeration. Of course, if you say…

…And it's, I mean, it's absolutely full rehabilitation of Hitler, and it ends up quite shamelessly with how only Hitler, a new Hitler, can save us. The problem is, I think this is not just an exaggeration. Of course, if you say to today's populists,…

…forward. They were the true heroes. And my idea is, why don't you then go to the end and say the same about Hitler? He may do something problematically, but he wants to save Europe against Bolshevism. He fought the right battle. He is the true hero.…

…in ex-East Germany, and one group present there were some right-wing neo-Nazi ecologists. And he attacked them, for, but my God, you praise Hitler, you are Nazis. And he got, I'm sorry if you know it, the answer of a lifetime. I love it. They answered…

…sorry if you know it, the answer of a lifetime. I love it. They answered him, no, it's not true, we are critical of Hitler. But now listen to their... They said, we... They were green, ecology. They said, we are horrified at Hitler. We agree one should…

…we are critical of Hitler. But now listen to their... They said, we... They were green, ecology. They said, we are horrified at Hitler. We agree one should be balanced. Hitler did some good things, like getting rid of the Jews, Germany, and so on. But…

…listen to their... They said, we... They were green, ecology. They said, we are horrified at Hitler. We agree one should be balanced. Hitler did some good things, like getting rid of the Jews, Germany, and so on. But he also did so many horrible things,…

…this so subversive and much more deeply anti-Nazi that, you know, you don't make Nazis just those clumsy idiots, whatever, shouting Heil Hitler and so on and so on. Okay, so we are doing the concentrating, Poles are doing the camping. Today, if you ask…

…an obscene reversal worthy of concentration camp Erhard from to be or not to be. You all remember this disgusting defense of Hitler, which was popular in some circles after World War II. Truth. Hitler did some horrible things, like killing the Jews, but…

…not to be. You all remember this disgusting defense of Hitler, which was popular in some circles after World War II. Truth. Hitler did some horrible things, like killing the Jews, but he also did some good things, like building highways, making trains run…

…be fully acknowledged and so on. Okay, so he told me, German, that when he reproached them with the meaning, you are for Hitler, neo-Nazis. I'm deeply critical of Hitler. True, he did some good things, like getting rid of the groups. But he also did…

…Okay, so he told me, German, that when he reproached them with the meaning, you are for Hitler, neo-Nazis. I'm deeply critical of Hitler. True, he did some good things, like getting rid of the groups. But he also did many horrible things to nature, like…

…totalitarian things, the real situation is much more ambiguous. Look, years ago I read, I thought my way through this horrible book. Maybe Hitler was a good speaker, but not writer. And I read it with a simple question in my mind. Did Hitler believe in…

…Eichmann's defense that I was just a perfect Kantian. No, a perfect, because Eichmann precisely projected the source of authority onto Hitler. I was just following orders and so on. No, a Kantian cannot ever say that. You are fully responsible for what…

…maybe did the best film which takes place in Poland, to be or not to be, you know. You don't know this. It's a Hitler comedy. It takes place in Warsaw. It's extra, but let's drop that. What happens in this one, in Ninochka, I'm just referring, I use…

…of this tragic turn of communism. You don't have some marginal, but nobody in Germany as far as I know accused socialism. Hitler in the same way as Trotsky accused Stalin of betraying the revolution. I don't remember anyone accusing Hitler of this. And…

…as I know accused socialism. Hitler in the same way as Trotsky accused Stalin of betraying the revolution. I don't remember anyone accusing Hitler of this. And now, just to conclude, I would like to praise your book, which is there also to sign. In your…

…Nothing More, Mladen's. I don't know if you included this there, you know, this basic difference between fascism and Stalinism. Fascism, Hitler is a figure of voice. Stalin is a figure of writing, interpretation of sacred texts, and so many other things…

…you know, like, the lesson with Stalinism is try again fail again fail better this is definitely not the lesson what we should do with Hitler ok they told us to stop at like 10 past 7 at the latest so the prospect of revolution I mean there is a…

…becomes something meaningful and so on. This is why I proposed a thesis that the greatest practitioner of Pokemon Go was Adolf Hitler with his anti-Semitism. Isn't it? The figure of the Jew, exactly such a Pokemon figure. In what sense? You look, if…

…Jew, exactly such a Pokemon figure. In what sense? You look, if you're a German, at reality in 1931, 32, boring, chaos. Then Hitler comes and say, but look for the Jew. And it becomes interesting, everything acquires meaning, and so on and so on. And I…

…the field is open for ideological competition. For example, as we all know, in Germany in the late 20s and early 30s, Hitler won in the competition for the Nazis, which will explain to Germans the reasons for the crisis of the Weimar Republic. plot.…

…applaud Charlie Chappie, a half-Jew, at the movies, to admire Bruce, a half-Jew, to applaud Yehudi Menuhin, a Jew, and the voice of Hitler is carried over radio waves named after the Jew Kurds. We don't want to kill anyone. We don't want to organize any…

…Cabernet High School in Palo Alto, California, of course, in April 1967. Unable to explain to his students how Germans could obey Hitler and accept the Holocaust, he decided to show this to them instead. So he started a movement called the Third Way and…

…of an experiment in fascism and that they all willingly created a sense of superiority and trashing the enemy. So now you understand how Hitler did it. Now comes my result. If this is not now what I've always expected, then I don't know what to do. I'm…

…the level of facts, it were to be true. Because what makes it pathological is not its truth or not, but the reason why does Hitler need a figure of the Jew to assert its identity. And this is not a question of knowledge in the sense of, are Jews…

…assert its identity. And this is not a question of knowledge in the sense of, are Jews really like that? It's why does Hitler, for what pathological reason, does Hitler... Or to put it in the terms of the title of my talk, what antagonisms does Hitler…

…not a question of knowledge in the sense of, are Jews really like that? It's why does Hitler, for what pathological reason, does Hitler... Or to put it in the terms of the title of my talk, what antagonisms does Hitler need to obliterate that are…

…Hitler, for what pathological reason, does Hitler... Or to put it in the terms of the title of my talk, what antagonisms does Hitler need to obliterate that are projected into the figure of the Jew? So all this for Lacan, although he oscillates a little…

…I still, you know, it's not an a priori statement. I'm not this old-fashioned crazy Marxist like communists in Germany, 33, Besser Hitler, the lines would be clear. It's a very strategic statement. I'm just afraid, as I said, that we are entering a new…

…defending Europe. French are degenerate and British are in their island. So Germany has to be broken. They consciously provoke Hitler to do the Holocaust so that now Germany is just in this regressive mood, non-aggressive, accepting refugees. Now come with…

…instance, in the film, I mentioned previously, come out of airplane doors directly after previously we have seen Stalin coming out or Hitler. So, it transports you into a rear, which no doubt you did not add your intention to it, that this would happen.…

…Jews. But give them some time and they will see that their true target is. But, sorry, but you can say the same about Hitler. His true target was capitalism. He was just confused and attacked the Jews. It doesn't work here, this, how should I call it,…

…You know, if you read European history and ask a naive, stupid question, which is, when did things go wrong so that Hitler emerged? I think we can. It's a little bit suspicious logic, but basically we can precisely... define the moment when European…

…define the moment when European history took the wrong turn. And retroactively at least we can say there the first step towards Hitler was opened. The guy who is most responsible for it is Père Joseph, Father Joseph, a French priest who was kind of…

…as we all know, too late for colonization for the First World War, the defeat in the First World War, Second World War, Hitler. Okay, it's a little bit simple explanation, but you got the logic. Aldous Huxley wrote a wonderful book about this guy, Per…

…is, ha-ha. I mean, haha, like, okay, it sounds deep, but replace the general term enemy with a concrete name. Would you say that Hitler was our enemy because we were not ready to hear his story and so on, no? I mean, or take... For example, Karadzic.…

…body. The inner truth, of course, any criminal can be revealed by it. I'm quite sure that if you were to ask Stalin, Hitler, whoever, they would tell you their story. This would appear momentary. You see, this guy has an inner life. I don't think inner…

…to me, what do you want? And it's incredible what I go. We want a just society. I told them, okay, fuck off Hitler. Go more. We want a society where money serves people and people don't serve money. I told them Hitler would subscribe this immediately.…

…okay, fuck off Hitler. Go more. We want a society where money serves people and people don't serve money. I told them Hitler would subscribe this immediately. Because money which doesn't serve people is controlled by Jews and so on. And then, you know,…

…came from Indian Foreign Ministry to Slovenian Foreign Ministry, saying, your citizen, Savoy Zizek, claimed that Gandhi is no better than Hitler. Is this now the official Slovenian position? And I advised to answer them, not yet, but we are thinking to do…

…speak the brutal language of open, realistic egotism, you are most blinded. A proof, if you want one, anywhere, just look, from Hitler. You know, I read, you should do it maybe, Hitler's mind count. With a specific view, I asked myself while reading it…

…it maybe, Hitler's mind count. With a specific view, I asked myself while reading it a very simple question, stupid one. Did Hitler believe he was right there? And the answer is clear and unambiguous, yes and no. On the one hand, Hitler was consciously…

…example, he says, he writes in his manifest that in Europe, the problem, we no longer have Jewish problem. He means because Hitler took care of that. He said United States is so-so. No, sorry, United Kingdom, United States, six million Jews, too much…

…brutal violence is sacred. Again, sacred in the sense of, if you can normalize it, in the sense of, yeah, German interest, Hitler manipulating German people, blah, blah, blah. It's obscene to do this. It's ethically obscene. Now I want to go a step…

…in globalized cynicism. I claim that every cynic has a weak point. Nobody is totally a cynic. You know, even, like, take Hitler. Yeah, he liked dogs, small children, you know. You may be a ruthless murderer, but you have some private oasis. No, but…

…it? Because it can be shown in the most elementary way, for example, that, although he wasn't aware of it, but when Hitler said Jews, this was a kind of a mystifying ersatz for capitalism, no? But nonetheless, unfortunately, he didn't say capitalism, no?…

…defend my position to the end. When in United States already, the publisher got almost a heart attack with that statement of mine, Hitler was not violent, radical enough. Like, you want him to kill all of us Jews, no? They didn't get my point, which was…

…opposite. My point was that, and I think this is, on the contrary, the most radical anti-fascist point, that it's wrong to celebrate Hitler as this kind of a Hannah Arendt was very well aware of it to condemn him as diabolic, but nonetheless elevate him…

…some kind of a radical diabolical greatness and so on and so on. Like, you know, like some right-wingers like to say, okay, okay, Hitler did some horrible thing, but he had balls to do them. No, he didn't have balls. We should insist on it that Hitler…

…Hitler did some horrible thing, but he had balls to do them. No, he didn't have balls. We should insist on it that Hitler was basically a coward. He killed millions. Why? Not to do the real thing, to change a little bit capitalist relations. Hitler's…

…already in late 30s, he wrote a wonderful short text on the psychological structure of fascist propaganda, where he emphasizes how Hitler himself was not a figure of paternal authority. Wilhelm Reich was totally wrong here. The message of Hitler was not,…

…where he emphasizes how Hitler himself was not a figure of paternal authority. Wilhelm Reich was totally wrong here. The message of Hitler was not, I'm now a good father, you were too wild, my children, in Weimar Germany with moral decadence, social chaos,…

…wonderfully perceptive way, and directed probably against the simplifications of Wilhelm Reich and other sexual revolutionaries, Adorno emphasized how Hitler is not a figure of paternal authority. Hitler is a kind of a fake permissive figure, that we shouldn't…

…the simplifications of Wilhelm Reich and other sexual revolutionaries, Adorno emphasized how Hitler is not a figure of paternal authority. Hitler is a kind of a fake permissive figure, that we shouldn't be seduced something like, enough of Weimar Germany,…

…with their national dreams, combine forces with the military, with killers. between the lines, like in the case of Hitler, I told you, the explicit message, sacrifice, country, ethics, German spirit, the implicit message, obscenity, carnivalistic murder and so…

…traditional functioning of ideology. On the contrary, you get the ideological injunction directly, as I already said, apropos of Hitler. Sacrifice yourself, do your duty, and then you get, between the lines, implicitly the obscene message. And again, always…