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Podcast: If You Could’ve Killed Hitler, Wouldn’t You?
Greg challenges the intuitively appealing notion of killing Hitler and thereby preventing the massacre of millions of people.
—Edvard Munch, “The Murderer,” 1910
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Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Hitler, Non-Violence, Violence
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