“What no one seemed to notice. . . was the ever widening
gap. . .between the government and the people. . . And it became always wider.
. . the whole process of its coming into being, was above all diverting, it
provided an excuse not to think for people who did not want to think anyway . .
. (it) gave us some dreadful, fundamental things to think about . . .and kept
us so busy with continuous changes and 'crises' and so fascinated . . . by the
machinations of the 'national enemies,' without and within, that we had no time
to think about these dreadful things that were growing, little by little, all
around us. . .”
- Milton Mayer - They Thought They Were
Free - The Germans, 1933-45
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