They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)
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They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)
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Yes, it's good to be careful to not label as people as fascists unless they do things like, for example, literally do the Nazi salute while publicly addressing a crowd.
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Yes, it's good to be careful to not label as people as fascists unless they do things like, for example, literally do the Nazi salute while publicly addressing a crowd.
Or try to rule by executive power while ignoring the Constitution, Congress, checks and balances...
Of course it's not only fascists who can be totalitarian, but totalitarianism is a bad smell in any form of government and should be avoided.
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#6> What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it.
Welp.
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#7It is probably good to remember that this talks about the experience of a German, under Hitler's Nazi government.
This isn't a text that refers to current events. It talks about what happened. How things progressed. Why everybody just ambled along. How it was possible that so many just went along.
If you think there are parallels to current times, or if you feel this attacks you or your beliefs, there is value in thinking about "why". What is it about this story that reaches you? What are you willing to learn from it?
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#8It is probably good to remember that this talks about the experience of a German, under Hitler's Nazi government. This isn't a text that refers to current events. It talks about what happened. How things progressed. Why everybody just ambled along. How it was possible that so many just went along. If you think there are parallels to current times, or if you feel this attacks you or your beliefs, there is value in thi…
I don’t see the call to action. It describes perfectly the feeling of hopelessness I’ve had for years now. The election was the last chance and everyone blew it.
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Confirmation bias. I watch one PBS news program and they cover white people's problems in rural America all the time. They just cover other people's problems as well.