Dan Gillmor on Nostr: 'Nazism has nothing to do with race and nationality. It appeals to a certain type of ...
'Nazism has nothing to do with race and nationality. It appeals to a certain type of mind. It is also, to an immense extent, the disease of a generation—the generation which was either young or unborn at the end of the last war. This is as true of Englishmen, Frenchmen, and Americans as of Germans. It is the disease of the so-called “lost generation.”'
-- Dorothy Thompson, from "Who Goes Nazi?" (1941)
https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/Published at
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