Josh Hanson’s Reviews > They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45 > Status Update

"The Federal Bureau of Investigation, with its fantastically rapid development of a central record of an ever increasing number of Americans, law-abiding and lawless, is something new in America. But it is very old in Germany, and it had nothing to do with National Socialism except to make it easier for the Nazi government to locate and trace the whole life-history of any and every German."
- Milton Mayer, 1955