That Nazism wanted to be a utopia is a finding as chilling as it is true. To endure, no dictatorship can sustain itself only on crime: it must also propose scenarios of happiness . This explains why Hitler's utopia had dark sides and bright sides: imprisonment of dissidents but construction of highways; annihilation of democracy but garden cities; death to the Israelite but paid vacations. It was an effective juxtaposition, because at the same time that it channeled the human instinct of destruction, it attended to the search, no less human, for well-being. For the National Socialists, hatred of the...