Szrapnel Quotes

“I can see how what we call the Holocaust happened. It’s a weakness in human beings, all human beings, that we must guard against. The herd instinct is strong in most people and they will follow a leader, in almost any insane programme, no matter how inhuman, just because he’s the leader and other people are doing it. People who would never think of doing things like burning, gassing people, on their own, find themselves doing what they are told, no matter how cruel, vicious, murderous it might be. And, it’s just because the rest of the people are doing it.”
― William Wharton, Shrapnel: A Memoir – The Acclaimed Writer's Powerful Account of Learning to Kill and Wartime Transformation in WWII