They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45

by Milton Sanford Mayer

And so, just as there is when one man dreads the policeman on the beat and another waves “Hello” to him, there are two countries in every country.

So, in the body politic as in the body personal, nonresistance to the milder indulgences paves the way for nonresistance to the deadlier.

The German community—the rest of the seventy million Germans, apart from the million or so who operated the whole machinery of Nazism—had nothing to do except not to interfere.