How Hitler Became a Dictator
Describing how the average German adapted to the new order, Shirer writes,
The overwhelming majority of Germans did not seem to mind that their personal freedom had been taken away, that so much of culture had been destroyed and replaced with a mindless barbarism, or that their life and work had become regimented to a degree never before experienced even by a people accustomed for generations to a great deal of regimentation…. The Nazi terror in the early years affected the lives of relatively few Germans and a newly arrived observer was somewhat surprised to see that the people of this country did not seem to feel that they were being cowed…. On the contrary, they supported it with genuine enthusiasm. Somehow it imbued them with a new hope and a new confidence and an astonishing faith in the future of their country.
(LRC)
July 2nd, 2004 at 10:57
What’s not to understand?!? Afterall the germans were being supplied a feeling of ‘security’ they had only dreamed of before! Auchtung! More rules bitte!!!
All kidding aside, it really is amazing how ‘secure’ herd creatures feel when they are packed ‘together’. What scares them the most is any and all dissenters to what the herd wants/needs/feels. (And how that is known is never explained either)
September 13th, 2010 at 11:35
[...] all that’s needed is for some joke turd in a pantsuit to rally these walking pieces of mental sloth. onward moron soldiers, marching as to 2012. your stupidity has freed you. [...]