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Article: Comparisons to Hitler evocative but logically unsound, critics say.(Milosevic compared to Hitler)(Brief Article)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- June 18, 1999
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In the back of the mind of every Western leader since World War II, every president or prime minister who has hesitated to send troops into battle, must lurk the image of Neville Chamberlain.
It was Chamberlain who as prime minister of England flew off to Munich in 1938 to negotiate "peace in our time" with Adolph Hitler. That peace proved illusory, and Hitler has since become the stock refutation of the pacifist position in the Western mind.
Perhaps inevitably, supporters of the NATO air campaign in Yugoslavia have called Milosevic "another Hitler" and have evoked memories of the Holocaust in referring to the suffering of the Kosovar Albanians.
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