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"They Thought They Were Free"

« H E Scribbles :: Boris Epstein :: email
posted Wednesday, 25 May 2005
This is the title of Milton Mayer's book about the perception of ordinary Germans during the reign of Nazis.
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 he people could understand it, it could not be released because of national security.

If you happen to live in the US today you might think it was written right here, just a minute ago...

I think I am definitely putting this book on my "to read" list.

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