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They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 by Milton Mayer, an excerpt, 2017 edition
(press.uchicago.edu)
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I own this book, and I have read it a few times. As a 21st century US American it is horrifying.
"Or learn to live the rest of your life with your shame." We'll have to get used to that idea. ..
I was dismayed to read about how many of the post-war Germans felt that the NAZIs in power was, to their estimation, the greatest time to be alive and be German. And some wished it hadn't ended.
I can just imagine some post WW3 Chinese writer interviewing some of my neighbors and my neighbors giving that same answer about Trump.