ABSTRACT
The people now in power had argued for an extended war in Iraq leading to the fall of Saddam Hussein. The attack on the World Trade Center towers gave this group the pretext it needed to start the war they had clearly wanted. At issue was revenge and a show of strength. An intimate understanding of the role played by the ideas of glory, value, sacrifice, devotion and similar emotionally loaded terms can be gained by reading the correspondence that two active and enthusiastic participants in the war had with their families. In the documentary, a casual remark by his wife, Marga, about her inability to have more children suggests that she might have suspected that there was another woman and perhaps even condoned Himmler’s infidelity. Invariably, religious fervour or self-aggrandizement detracts from the realism needed to win a war. The conflict between the necessary sense of purpose required to achieve the aim of winning a war.
