“I was a stupid and politically disinterested nobody from a simple background. I never knew about the Holocaust. I wouldn’t see myself as being guilty. Unless you end up blaming the entire German population for ultimately enabling that government to take control. That was all of us, including me.”
“Those people nowadays who say they would have stood up against the Nazis – I believe they are sincere in meaning that, but believe me, most of them wouldn’t have."
She described how, after the rise of the Nazi party, “the whole country was as if under a kind of a spell. I could open myself up to the accusations that I wasn’t interested in politics, but the truth is the idealism of youth might easily have led to you having your neck broken.”
This also describes the many people today who are enabling a new tyranny to take hold, a tyranny that will make Nazi tyranny look like a picnic. Just as the Nazis used fear and deceit to seize power, so are the new tyrants who are installing a totalitarian state under the guise of public health necessity. By playing along with their increasing control, we are "enabling" them to eventually seize total control. You have to resist where you can.
This also describes the many people today who are enabling a new tyranny to take hold, a tyranny that will make Nazi tyranny look like a picnic. Just as the Nazis used fear and deceit to seize power, so are the new tyrants who are installing a totalitarian state under the guise of public health necessity. By playing along with their increasing control, we are "enabling" them to eventually seize total control. You have to resist where you can.
You don't believe me? You think I'm crazy? Wait and see. The people of the 1930s paid a big price for being naive.
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