Adolph Hitler had a dream of a thousand-year empire. The years may make us forget too soon and too easily the terror that was Adolph Hitler. The terror was that this little man, not in stature alone, but in smallness of mind, had managed to do in an extraordinary degree what others had done before him, and what we are all capable of doing. What he did, says Kenneth Burke, was to make virtue vice, and vice virtue. When, therefore, the Nazis put six million Jews and millions of others into the ovens, they did not do it because Adolph Hitler or anyone else was holding a gun in their backs, a matter of killing or being killed. They did not do it because the killing of millions was a moral duty. They did it, says Kenneth Burke, as an act of adoration. As life had been treasured, under the Nazi…