Should we treat evil as banal? A new film about war photographer Lee Miller and a surge of TikTok users quoting Hitler speeches speak to the complexities of the concept of evil.
The woman who got into Hitler’s bath
Combat photographer: Miller photographed Hitler's bath, frontlines and the evacuation near Omaha Beach. Later, she suffered from depression and alcohol abuse. Glossary
Adolf Hitler - A dictator, and the leader of Nazi Germany during World War Two.
World War Two - A global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945 and included all of the great powers.
Munich - A city in southern Germany.
Infamous - Famous for the wrong reasons.
Banality - Something that is boring or unexciting.
Nazi - A German political party of the twentieth century, led by Adolf Hitler. The Nazis controlled Germany from the early 1930s until the end of World War II.
Holocaust - The murder of six million Jewish people in Europe by Nazi Germany. Members of other minority groups were also killed.
Far-right - A range of ideologies that emphasise social order, racial purity and the elimination of opponents.
anti-Semitic - Showing hatred or prejudice towards Jewish people.
Mundane - Ordinary. It originally referred to something that belonged to Earth rather than heaven.
War criminal - A participant in war crimes — violations of the laws of war which fighters and individuals must follow.