Is there really much moral difference between the people who pretend that the survival of the planet isn't as big a reality as a pocketful of money in the here and now, and the people who appeased Hitler.

After all Hitler's evil wasn't apparent to an awful lot of people in the 1930's, or Stalin's for that matter.

Having said that the trivialisation of the word, nazi makes me uneasy. Most of our generation , I suppose, grew up with parents whose lives were marred by the Nazi regime (I was born 1949). Whereas to people even ten or fifteen years younger, the war is just something that films like Hogan's Heroes, hannibal Brooks etc have trivialised beyond recogntion. And the truth was too awful to face - even for the films like Bridge Over the River Kwai, and In Which We Serve - like our generation watched.

I think we have to face it, that no film will ever bring into focus what our parents went through - the sights , the smells, the experience of wholesale slaughter. As my late father said, if you were there, you understand; if you weren't, you don't.

I think the war you are trying to wage against the devaluation of these terms is in the last instance, futile. Sad, but there you go.