• calliope@retrolemmy.com
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    24 hours ago

    This is correct, and it’s legitimately insane to me that the Nazis themselves never see it.

    In fact, they will completely deny it afterwards.

    I recommend reading They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-1945 by Milton Mayer. This is my favorite quote but the whole book was eye-opening:

    When I asked Herr Wedekind, the baker, why he had believed in National Socialism, he said, “Because it promised to solve the unemployment problem. And it did. But I never imagined what it would lead to. Nobody did.”

    I thought I had struck pay dirt, and I said, “What do you mean, ‘what it would lead to,’ Herr Wedekind?” “War,” he said. “Nobody ever imagined it would lead to war.”

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      22 hours ago

      “They said the leopards would solve the problem of having too many faces, but I never imagined they’d eat my face!”