  I agree with removing the adjective unless I find a direct quote.  However, I’d like to elaborate a little further on Miller’s analysis of Hitler’s willing executioners.  Hitler, like every other child, was born innocent, but was raised “as were many children at the time: in a destructive fashion”.  Hitler was survivor “of a machinery of annihilation” that in the turn of 19 century’s Germany was called childrearing.  The Prussian upbringing demanded absolute obedience and expressed contempt for the child.  Hitler once told his secretary that during one of the regular beatings given by his father “he was able to stop crying, to feel nothing”.  By denying his pain and despair, “Hitler made himself into a master of violence and contempt” for others, a person incapable of any empathy for other people.    Hitler was no exception.  He “could make Europe and the world into a battlefield of his childhood because in the Germany of that time there were millions of people who had experienced the same kind of upbringing”, and thus became Hitler’s willing executioners.  It is noteworthy that since these Prussian methods of childrearing were not so systematically used in other fascist countries, like Mussolini’s Italy or Franco’s Spain, in those fascist countries there were no murderous drive or hate displacement as the mass murder of Jews perpetrated by Germans.  Take a look at citation #1 above in this talk page.  — 