William Lindsey :toad: on Nostr: “The Nazis could not have risen to power and done what they did without the support ...
“The Nazis could not have risen to power and done what they did without the support of the masses of people who were open to his spell. I could not stop watching it [i.e., film footage of Hitler entering Berlin on 6 July 1940]. The smiling, shining faces in this carpet of exuberant humanity—this massive number of people could not all be what we would consider evil."
#fascism #Nazis #cruelty
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~ Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (NY: Random House, 2020)
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