It's not the "side," so much as the nature of the enterprise itself. Who, exactly, are we trying to persuade? Or is it all just self-indoctrination, where the goal is mainly to persuade ourselves that we are 'right'?
Anyway, Steinhoff's is an interesting story. He was one of Germany's top WWII fighter aces with 176 victories, flying from the beginning of the war to its ending. He was also known as "the handsomest man in the Luftwaffe". Unfortunately, in the final days of the war his ME262 jet crashed and he suffered massive burns which left him scarred for the rest of his life. He did live until 1994 and helped reconstruct the West German air force after the war.
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Date: 2005-06-30 06:29 pm (UTC)It's not the "side," so much as the nature of the enterprise itself. Who, exactly, are we trying to persuade? Or is it all just self-indoctrination, where the goal is mainly to persuade ourselves that we are 'right'?
Anyway, Steinhoff's is an interesting story. He was one of Germany's top WWII fighter aces with 176 victories, flying from the beginning of the war to its ending. He was also known as "the handsomest man in the Luftwaffe". Unfortunately, in the final days of the war his ME262 jet crashed and he suffered massive burns which left him scarred for the rest of his life. He did live until 1994 and helped reconstruct the West German air force after the war.
http://history1900s.about.com/library/prm/bljohannessteinhoff1.htm