During the Nuremberg trials, Hermann Göring was interviewed by a young American psychologist, Gustave Gilbert, who told Göring that he didn’t think the average person wanted to be dragged into war. Göring responded: “Why, of course, the people don’t want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?…It is always a simple matter to drag the people along….All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and [for] exposing the country
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