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From the first, Hitler, who in himself was far from open to other people’s ideas, had an instinct for appropriating everything that could be useful to his personal aims.
It is difficult to rid yourself, in only a few weeks, of thirty or forty years of private belief that the world is a good place.
National Socialism, with its unscrupulous methods of deception, took care not to show how radical its aims were until the world was inured to them. So it tried out its technique cautiously—one dose at a time, with a short pause after administering it. One pill at a time, then a moment of waiting to see if it had been too strong, if the conscience of the world could swallow that particular pill.
For in the midst of his military and political victories, that was Hitler’s most diabolical triumph—one man succeeded in deadening every idea of what is just and right by the constant attrition of excess.
But the most tragic part of this Jewish tragedy of the twentieth century was that those who were its victims could not see what the point of it was, and knew they were not to blame.
