This is an excerpt from Milton Mayer’s book “They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45.” It contains a frequently quoted short passage that many may have seen elsewhere, but it is rare to see that passage in context. Does it sound at all familiar?
But Then It Was Too Late
“What no one seemed to notice,” said a colleague of mine, a philologist, “was the ever widening gap, after 1933, between the government and the people. Just think how very wide this gap was to begin with, here in Germany. And it became always wider. You . . . → Read More: Does this sound familiar? They Thought They Were Free