Orwell reflects on post-war justice and sees collective blame as a moralistic loophole that paves the way for new crimes.
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1945. In “Contemporary Jewish Record”, Orwell reflects, without moralising, on the persistence of antisemitism as a form of nationalism.
Reviewing *Mein Kampf*, Orwell reflected on the hypocrisy of the élites who had welcomed it benevolently, and on the reasons for its appeal.
In “The Future of a Ruined Germany” (April 1945) Orwell expresses his realist, rather than pacifist, stance on war.
In “Colonia, dal caos all’ordine” (1945), Orwell observes the situation in the aftermath of the American military government's establishment.
In the last century, Europe was made through the persecution of Jews and their flight. Today, with the Palestinian genocide, the world is being made.