Recently I had a privilege of watching "The Zone of Interest" by Jonathan Glazer in a kino. The movie won Oscars for the best foreign movie and best sound. The movie is not an easy watch by any mean as the topic is very hard to digest. After contemplating for a while, I realised one underlying theme of the movie is "humanising the Nazis" and discuss the idea of "banality of the evil".
Humanising the Nazis in modern day literature or media is a project to portray Nazis attached with all the nuances and emotions a normal human being has instead of portraying them in comic or pure evil embodiment. I believe this approach is imperative if we ever want to understand the inherent structures that can enable "evil" to happen. Only in this scheme we can understand why humans act in certain ways in certain situations.
This scheme can also shed the light on the issue why atrocities happen in a "loop or in Ewige Wiederkunft" and can highlight the shortcoming of the DeNazification process which was more focussed on punishing the people rather than deconstructing the structures that enabled Nazis to go to the unspeakable length of erasing one human race. Also this scheme can show us that in coming days the same elements can be triggered with different set of people/race, different modus operandi but with the same efficacy and results. One does not have to go far to see the real life and heart wrenching example of same "evil" occurring in the land of Palestine,,,
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