Hunt argues that it was not the guilt of wickedness, but the shame of weakness that seized Germany's national psychology, and " served as a solvent of the Weimar democracy and also as an ideological cement of Hitler's dictatorship.

Rabbi David Dalin's The Myth of Hitler's Pope argues that critics of Pius XII are liberal Catholics and ex-Catholics who " exploit the tragedy of the Jewish people during the Holocaust to foster their own political agenda of forcing changes on the Catholic Church today " and that Pius XII was responsible for saving the lives of many thousands of Jews.

Daniel Goldhagen, Harvard scholar and author of the controversial Hitler's Willing Executioners, argues that philosemites are often closet anti-Semites.

Carroll disclaims the notion that Christian anti-Judaism leads inevitably to the Shoah perpetrated by National Socialism, but he argues that Church's long history of " Jew-hatred " ( his term ) laid the foundation for Hitler's crimes.

Browning argues that sometime in mid-July 1941 Hitler made the decision to begin general genocide owing to his exhilaration over his victories over the Red Army, whereas Burrin contends that the decision was made in late August 1941 owing to Hitler's frustration over the slowing down of the Wehrmacht.

Kershaw argues that by 1938 the German state had been reduced to a hopeless, polycratic shambles of rival agencies all competing with each other to win Hitler's favor, which by that time had become the only source of political legitimacy.

Of the three fractions, it was the " agrarians " whose views were most closest to Hitler's programme, but Hildebrand argues that there was an important difference in that the " agrarians " saw an alliance with Britain as being the natural alignment of two " Aryan " powers, whereas for Hitler the proposed British alliance was more a matter of power politics.

He argues that Hitler's anti-Semitism involved a projection of the young Wittgenstein's traits onto the whole Jewish people.

German historian Michael Rissmann argues that Cornish overestimates Hitler's intellectual capacities and uses fraudulent talks Hermann Rauschning claims to have had with Hitler to prove Hitler's alleged occultist interest.

The statement is often made that when Bultmann argues in this way, he `` overestimates the intellectual stumbling-block which myth is supposed to put in the way of accepting the Christian faith ''.

According to the canonical Gospels, Jesus was the " son " ( descendant ) of David ; thus, Hajj Sayed argues that this statement confirms the Gospel of Barnabas ' point.

Dennett argues that Gould alternated between revolutionary and conservative claims about the theory, and that each time Gould made a revolutionary statement — or appeared to do so — he was criticized, and thus retreated to a traditional neo-Darwinian position.

With this statement he argues that rhetoric is a fundamental part of civic life in every society and that it has been necessary in the foundation of all aspects of society.

Quoting Pope Paul VI's statement that the shroud is " the wonderful document of His Passion, Death and Resurrection, written for us in letters of blood " author Antonio Cassanelli argues that the shroud is a deliberate divine record of the five stages of the Passion of Christ, created at the moment of resurrection.

Smullyan argues that the paradox is akin to the statement " I know a man who is both five feet tall and six feet tall ," in effect claiming that the " paradox " is merely a contradiction, not a true paradox at all, as the two axioms above are mutually exclusive.

David Goodstein argues that Millikan's statement, that all drops observed over a sixty-day period were used in the paper, was clarified in a subsequent sentence which specified all " drops upon which complete series of observations were made ".

However, Janet Backhouse argues for the validity of the statement by pointing out that, " there is no reason to doubt statement " because he was " recording a well established tradition ".

In The Structure of Religious Knowing: Encountering the Sacred in Eliade and Lonergan, John Daniel Dadosky argues that, by making this statement, Eliade was acknowledging " indebtedness to Greek philosophy in general, and to Plato's theory of forms specifically, for his own theory of archetypes and repetition ".

Monsterrat argues that all the versions of the hymns focus on the king and suggests that the real innovation is to redefine the relationship of god and king in a way that benefited Akhenaten, quoting the statement of Egyptologist John Baines that " Amarna religion was a religion of god and king, or even of king first and then god.

" He argues that, however, the anachronism is the point, and that bow tie wearers are making a public statement that they disdain changing fashion.

Soon after his arraignment he held a press statement where he admitted to everything he was being charged with but argues that these DDOS attacks constituted acts of cyber-civil disobedience.

Barkun argues that this statement is partly facetious ( the claim of " conspiracy " and " treason ") and partly serious — the desire to encourage trilateral cooperation among the U. S., Europe, and Japan, for example — an ideal that used to be a hallmark of the internationalist wing of the Republican Party — known as " Rockefeller Republicans " in honor of Nelson Rockefeller — when there was an internationalist wing.

Xunzi, however, argues that " those who maintain that desires must be gotten rid of before there can be orderly government fail to consider whether desires can be guided ..." Here Xunzi asserts that if someone truly understood desires, they would not make such a contradictory statement ( desires, in Xunzi's mind, cannot be guided ).

Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, an organization that advocates tighter restrictions on immigration, argues that defining the term as offensive is inaccurate and is done for purposes of political rhetoric ; according to Krikorian, "' anchor baby is a child born to an illegal immigrant ,'" and the revision of the definition to state that the term is offensive was done to make a political statement.

Dominic Montserrat, analysing the various versions of the hymns to the Aten, argues that all the versions of the hymns focus on the king and suggests that the real innovation is to redefine the relationship of god and king in a way that benefited Akhenaten, quoting the statement of Egyptologist John Baines that " Amarna religion was a religion of god and king, or even of king first and then god.

Van der Leeuw argues that this concept of religious dread is also present in Kierkegaard ’ s work on Angst and in Heidegger ’ s statement that “ what arouses dread is ‘ being in the world ’ itself ”.

Schelbert also argues that it is clear that the biblical stories of the patriarchs clearly permit polygamy, in contradiction of John Paul's statement that polygamy " directly rejects the plan of God as revealed in the beginning.

Chirāgh ʼAlī ( 1885 ) argues that this statement may have referred to " king " or " ruler " rather than God.

Anthropologist Dean Snow stated that though Franklin's Albany Plan may have drawn some inspiration from the Iroquois League, there is little evidence that either the Plan or the Constitution drew substantially from this source and argues that "... such claims muddle and denigrate the subtle and remarkable features of Iroquois government.

Hutching argues that after 1890 women were increasingly well organized through the National Council of Women, the Women's Christian Temperance Union ( WCTU ), the Women's International League, and the Housewives Union, and others.

Both sides claimed that the other had no factual detail to support its charges: The ICFI argues that the defense of the SWP leadership, and the charge that the ICFI's campaign was a ' frame up ,' are slanders against Workers ' League without factual backing.

The book argues that the Oakland A's ' front office took advantage of more analytical gauges of player performance to field a team that could compete successfully against richer competitors in Major League Baseball ( MLB ).

The League for the Fifth International argues that the Eastern European states were degenerate workers states, in that they were " degenerate from birth " being qualitative degenerated rather than having quantitative deformations.

He lists the times that the Aetolians were accused of temple robbery and argues that the weight of these accusations should take into account that these are usually made by political opponents of the League and refer to occasions that were already some way in the past when the accusations were made.

Norman Finkelstein argues that organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League have brought forward charges of new antisemitism at various intervals since the 1970s, " not to fight antisemitism but rather to exploit the historical suffering of Jews in order to immunize Israel against criticism ".

When Darkseid attacks the remaining members of the Society, she argues with the Justice League to fight alongside them, going with Green Lantern and Flash to defend Paris.

The book argues the importance of a liberal arts education and goes on to inquire about the qualities of Ivy League schools in general, and how such qualities apply to higher education.

The book argues that the pattern is sharply evident in for example 300 years of Ancient Greek history, the Swiss Cantons since 14th century, in the County of Flanders during 14th century, in the three and a half centuries of the Hanseatic League, and in Renaissance Italy.

The United Nations Security Council argues that Eritrea and Ethiopia have expanded their dispute to a second theater, Somalia.

Spain claims the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, ceded to Britain in perpetuity in 1713 under the Treaty of Utrecht, and argues its case at the United Nations claiming its territorial integrity is affected.

He argues that the scheme would likely have to be implemented outside the framework of the United Nations due to the necessity of being selective regarding the targeted regions and countries, and suggests that within countries certain regions should be prioritized to the extent that cooperative separatist movements should be encouraged if they are an improvement over the existing authority.

" He also argues against what he calls the modern liberal belief that " human nature is intrinsically good ," and thus that " the great conflicts in the world ... arise out of terrible misunderstandings that can be corrected through ongoing conversation and through the mediation of the United Nations.

In The Rise and Decline of Nations, 1982, Mancur Olson argues that " bureaucratic regulation itself generates further complexity and costs.

The United Nations Security Council argues that Eritrea and Ethiopia have expanded their dispute to a second theater, Somalia.

Lewis argues that the international public response and the United Nations ' handling of the 1948 refugee situation convinced the Arab world that discrimination against Jews was acceptable.

Lewis argues that the failure of the United Nations to protest sent a clear message to the Arab world.

In this thesis Chydenius argues in favour of free export trade rights for the province of Ostrobothnia and lays down the principles of liberalism and the free markets-for example, free trade and industry-eleven years before Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations ( 1776 ).

" He argues that most English-speaking Canadians " continued to believe that Canada was, and should continue to be, a ' British ' nation and that it should cooperate with the other members of the British family in the British Commonwealth of Nations .” Nevertheless, there are two possible mechanisms whereby World War I may have intensified Canadian nationalism: 1 ) Pride in Canada ’ s accomplishments on the battlefield demonstrably promoted Canadian patriotism, and 2 ) the war distanced Canada from Britain in that Canadians reacted to the sheer slaughter on the Western Front by adopting an increasingly anti-British attitude.

The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations, published in 2004, is a book written by James Surowiecki about the aggregation of information in groups, resulting in decisions that, he argues, are often better than could have been made by any single member of the group.

It accuses Japan of being a client state of the US, argues that Japan should not get a seat on the United Nations Security Council, and supports a renewed call for war reparations to China from Japan for its actions in the Second Sino-Japanese War.