An Op-Ed about...Hitler?

It is natural for humans to be intrigued by dark topics. Why else would people watch horror movies, research articles about Charles Manson, and read books about some of history’s massacres? In my case, my favorite dark and twisty subject to study is Adolf Hitler. (Don’t get me wrong, I am not a fan—I am simply a curious person.) So when I found a New York Times article arguing the absolutes of Stalin actually storing Hitler’s body in Moscow, I knew that I had found my article to research.

I am one of those people that go to the AOL homepage every day and watch the newsfeed, picking out articles that sound interesting. Most of the articles I select are questioning arguments made by others. The article I found on the NYT website, called Hitler’s Jaws of Death, falls into this category. These types of articles interest me greatly.

While I am not Jewish, nor overwhelmingly German, this article relates to my life in only one way: history is one of my favorite subjects to study, and this article is all about the history of the aftermath of WWII. The impact that Hitler made has had rippling effects, effects that draw people like me to study them today.

These effects are also widely researchable. There is a vast amount of information about Hitler, his death, and his body because of the importance of the Holocaust to many people. Material about all of this would thus be extremely easy to find.

To some people this would obviously seem like a futile attempt at researching a mum topic. It is obvious that this topic is not important in the way of stopping future dictators. But to people like myself, however, it would be the production of another stint of research about one of our favorite dark topics to study.