August 5, 2025
From
Pulitzer Prize finalist Garrett M. Graff’s new book, The Devil Reached Toward the Sky. This excerpt from the chapter Fleeing One Step Ahead
of Fascism was posted on his column ‘Doomsday
Scenario’:
Spoiler Alert: they are
In
1930s Europe,
…many
of Europe’s top scientists watched with remarkable clarity as German democracy
turned itself over – often much too willingly and easily – to Hitler, and the
scoffed at their colleagues and friends who assured them, “Don’t worry, Hitler
won’t be so bad – he won’t actually do the things he says he will.”
Any
of that sound familiar?
Louis
Fischer, correspondent, The Nation:
How did Hitler come to power in Germany? Hitler’s policy, at home and abroad,
has always been to reveal his plans. Hyper-suspicion of propaganda, however,
led many people to doubt what he said. The Nazis boasted that they would rule
Germany, and Hitler painted a picture of his future game. “Heads will roll,” he
said. He would destroy democracy. Yet democracy tolerated him and helped him
take office in order to destroy democracy. This peaceful death of German
democracy is one of the strangest chapters in history. German democracy marched
to its grave with eyes wide open, and singing, “Beware of Adolf Hitler.”
Democracy is temperate. Its foe is extremism. In Germany, extremism was the
thermometer of a sick social system and an ailing economy.
Sound
familiar?
This has been your Paying Attention™ Thought For The Day.
Well it looks like electing our current commander in cheese; the good old US of A has allowed Russia to grab the Chump by the Puttie
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