: About Me

Sam Vaknin ( http://samvak.tripod.com ) is the author of Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited and After the Rain - How the West Lost the East. He served as a columnist for Global Politician, Central Europe Review, PopMatters, Bellaonline, and eBookWeb, a United Press International (UPI) Senior Business Correspondent, and the editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories in The Open Directory and Suite101.

Visit Sam's Web site at http://samvak.tripod.com

My passion is ...

reading

I know too much about ...

narcissism

My parents always told me ...

be careful what you wish for

My childhood ambition ...

was to be famous

My favorite memory ...

books, books, books

Why I write ...

How else will I garner attention?

My first job ...

Commodities analyst

My inspiration ...

Don't ask.

Creative Writing > Memoirs Testimonies: Latent Nazis in contemporary Germany

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In in his controversial tome, "Hitler's Willing Executioners", the author, Daniel Goldhagen, posits that the Germans underwent a miraculous transformation in the wake of their devastating defeat in World war II. En masse, they have abandoned their centuries-old rabid, virulent, and ultimately lethal brand of anti-Semitism and anti-Slavism and became docile, altruistic citizens of the New World Order. This unlikely scenario sounds too good to be true because it is far from the truth. In the last 4 years (starting in late 2003), I have had multiple opportunities to collaborate or hold length...

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