Foole was being ironic too. There is a bit of comparison between that era in Germany and the Middle East today- if only that when people are so hysterical about the issue they can no longer think. Those poor buggers who froze, starved, bled and burned outside Stalingrad did so because they, or enough people around them, had swallowed the Nazis propoganda about racism. Both Israelis and Palestinians are dying because neither will look for the glimmer of justice in the other side's case.