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My good friend Mr Farrell over at Waging Nonviolence has this article up today on Common Dreams

Movies, arguably more than any medium, reinforce the belief that superior violence was the only way to take down Hitler … In reality, however, Nazis were actually relieved when the resistance turned to violence because it gave them an excuse to use more drastic and suppressive measures. According to military historian Basil Lidell Hart, who had the unique opportunity to interview German generals imprisoned in Britain after the war, “other forms of resistance baffled them” because “they were experts in violence, and had been trained to deal with opponents who used that method.” Such a finding suggests a surprising truth about World War II: Nonviolence, of the kind Gandhi practiced, was used successfully against the Nazis

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