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believing “that these are the only salvation.”72 There was certainly misinformation, and enough false belief about reality, but which reality? It was not the reality of Platonism or essentialism or of Beauty’s beauty, but of the worship of a Terrible Beauty, Margareta of Germany. The Nazi Holocaust party members, or any party members of any Holocaust, past or present, are members of repudiable Houndism and dis-memberism of others, because not only were they misinformed, and lacked principles and character, but because they marched after terrible beauties bound by irrational oaths that bound them to Houndism.
If the Judgment of Paris causes strife for feminine beauty’s sake, the Oath of Tyndareus facilitates it. In a cycle of stories, Menelaus and Agamemnon call Helen’s former suitors to recover honour and beautiful Helen by invoking the Oath of Tyndareus, just as Hitler binds his officials by many party oaths to fulfil his ideological quest and Nazi crimes.73 The Oath of Tyndareus, sworn by an alliance of former suitors of Helen, defends the marriage-rights of Menelaus should anyone try to abduct Helen.74 Similarly, Hitler’s party oaths aim to recover the lost ideals of German Romanticism and Classicism emblemized in Celan’s golden-haired Margareta.
Oaths are deeply ingrained; they cannot be circumvented.75 Helen’s former suitors, the richest and most noble from all Greece, are bound
72 Berlin, Isaiah. The Power of Ideas. Ed. By Henry Hardy. USA: Princeton University Press, 2000. 12
73 Glover, Jonathan. Humanity. A Moral History of the Twentieth Century. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. 328-336
74 Hesiod. Catalogue of Women and Other. Loeb Classical Library. Ed. and Trans. Most. London: Harvard University Press, 2007. 233
75 Glover, Jonathan. Humanity. A Moral History of the Twentieth Century. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. 336
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