Sound familiar?
This article recalls interviews with 10 German men in a German town shortly after the war.
medium.com/@cfhorgan/this…
h/t to @DangerousGlobe
Just to add to this, this is the full version of "Don't be a Sucker" - an anti-Nazi US public information film.
In the middle is this bit:
"But the man who was really being fooled was Hans. ... To him they promised everything, and he fell for it"
I'd also recommend watching "Rise of the Nazis"
There are plenty of documentaries about WW2 but not many about how Hitler came to power. There are a lot of parallels.
bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…
Also worth a read is this often quoted list of the 14 characteristics of fascism.
This is the original article from 2003.
See how many you can spot.
secularhumanism.org/2003/03/fascis…
From a Professor of History
From a Professor of History at Yale
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