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title: "I've just read about war, murder and Hitler"
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I have just read Kuo Pao Kun's "Keynote Address at the Southeast Asian
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Theatre Seminar on War". (In Pages 184 to 187, The Complete Works of Kuo
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Pao Kun, Volume 7: Papers and Speeches).
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He wants to know why people,
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numbering in the millions, can desire the mass murder of other people.
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He cannot understand why educated people, members of the intelligentsia,
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in Japan, Germany and China - and elsewhere - can indulge in this
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butchering of human beings.
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Kuo Pao Kun is not a psychiatrist, so he
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doesn't have the answer. But Elisabeth Kübler-Ross is one, and she has
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the answer to Kuo Pao Kun's question.
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Kübler-Ross calls it the inner
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Hitler: inside each person, there is the potential to become a Hitler,
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as well as the potential to become a Mother Teresa.
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A girl in Poland -
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who has lost her family to murder, during the Holocaust - once asked
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her: "don't you think that there is a Hitler inside all of us?"
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(source: Kübler-Ross's book, "The tunnel and the light")
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Kübler-Ross gently asks the reader: have you the courage to recognise the Hitler in yourself?
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