How Could This Happen Quotes

“One problem with making moral compromises is that doing the right thing becomes increasingly difficult: it requires admitting that one’s earlier acts were wrong. In effect, to get clean, one must first get dirtier, a step that few proved willing to take.”
― Dan McMillan, How Could This Happen: Explaining the Holocaust

“In almost every society, several sturdy barriers stand between a people and the perpetration of mass murder. Only a very long and violent chain of events managed to shatter these barriers in Germany. This book should show its readers why the”
― Dan McMillan, How Could This Happen: Explaining the Holocaust