Reading THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE—Milton Mayer’s interviews of 10 “ordinary” German Nazis:
“Nazism overcame Germany not by attack from without or subversion from within, but with a whoop and a holler. It was what most Germans wanted or—under pressure of combined reality and illusion—came to want”
“Nazism overcame Germany not by attack from without or subversion from within, but with a whoop and a holler. It was what most Germans wanted or—under pressure of combined reality and illusion—came to want”
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Echoes, today.
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“The rise of National Socialism involved both the elitist and the servile impulses. When ‘big men’…accepted Nazism, ‘little men’ had reason to accept it: ‘What was good enough for them is certainly good enough for us.’”
They had no regrets.
In getting used to casual snack bites of hate, Germans became inured to far more horrific crimes against humanity.
They put the Reichstag on fire and used it to grab power.
On this day.
The same Putin did in 1999.
And the incoming chancellor got ousted from his party in 2004, because he named his Nazi Grandpa "a model for CDU".
Just for perspective.
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