But it hadn’t felt completely real at the time. Hitler had been installed as chancellor because the moderates had thought they could control him. Most people who paid attention to politics in those days expected him to fade into obscurity, his madness burning bright but then snuffing out quickly. Also, there had been something deliciously subversive about converting the very Americans whom the Nazis hoped would go home and spread their message of hate and bigotry. And Althea had stopped willingly spending time with any Nazis not long after the Reichstag fire. It hadn’t been hard to forget
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