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Showing Original Post only (View all)An incredibly salient quote from the very end of the final volume of a 3 book series on Nazi Germany [View all]
From Richard J Evans, "The Third Reich at War", Page 762 of 764:
... when elderly Germans came towards the end of the century to look back on the Third Reich and ask themselves why they had supported it, they could no longer remember that one of the main reasons had been because they had thought that it made Germany great again.
Published in 2008.
I highly recommend all three volumes. I've spent my life studying Weimar Germany and the Third Reich and this set has got to be the best, overall, that I've ever read, and at this point I've read all three volumes many times over the years. That quote just keeps coming back to me. Over, and over, and over.
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An incredibly salient quote from the very end of the final volume of a 3 book series on Nazi Germany [View all]
Rainbow Droid
Feb 2020
OP
I've been aboard the "when Trump does X they'll see how bad he is" train for a long time.
Girard442
Feb 2020
#32
"I've spent my life studying Weimar Germany and the Third Reich" Me too! I used to live in Kitzingen
uponit7771
Feb 2020
#6
My late MIL was Viennese. She said Germans were known for their science, culture, and literature...
Hekate
Feb 2020
#29
I believe similar is happening at the border in regards to trust; people just trust the US and don't
uponit7771
Feb 2020
#36
Evans' Third Reich trilogy and Kershaw's Hitler biography are probably the definitive works
Azathoth
Feb 2020
#7
Nationalism is just tribalism on a grander scale. What Albert Einstein said was a the major threat.
olegramps
Feb 2020
#15
Just out of curiosity ... if they themselves couldn't remember that's what they thought ...
mr_lebowski
Feb 2020
#26
Probably contemporaneous accounts from newspapers, journals, and interviews of the 1930s-'40s...
Hekate
Feb 2020
#30
That method would not prove the assertion being made unless they were interviews with the
mr_lebowski
Feb 2020
#31
The quote is marked with notation 277, and when referenced will be found to read:
Rainbow Droid
Feb 2020
#33