Eric A. Johnson
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“In 1933 nearly 70 percent of Germany’s Jews worked in business and commerce; over 30 percent lived in the city of Berlin alone; and 70 percent lived in cities with a population of over 100,000 inhabitants.”
― What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany
― What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany
“Most non-Jews, however, experienced a very different Third Reich. Few harbored any fear of arrest even though they too often broke the law in minor ways. Most knew instinctively that the terror apparatus was not intent on punishing them so long as they broadly accepted and went along with National Socialism, which most did. Difficult as it is to fathom, given most people’s conception of dictatorship, most Germans appear to have led happy, productive, even normal lives in the Third Reich. This indicates that a dictatorship can enjoy widespread popularity among the majority even while committing unspeakable crimes against minorities and others.”
― What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany
― What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany
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“What has been said is often less important than what has not been said.”
― Nazi Terror: The Gestapo, Jews, and Ordinary Germans
― Nazi Terror: The Gestapo, Jews, and Ordinary Germans