![]() ![]() The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way. How far you’ve come, or how far you have to go Your strengths, or your weaknesses The best that might happen, or the worst that might come to be In your quiet moments, pay attention to your thoughts. In 1955, Milton Mayer published They Thought They Were Free. Nazism was finished in the bunker in Berlin. ![]() Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. When this book was first published it received some attention from the critics but none at all from the public. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.Īnd one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you… n my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. ![]() In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Following the 2016 presidential election, a group of Redditors digging for context and historical parallel rediscovered an excerpt on our website from Milton Mayer’s 1955 book, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 19331945. About eighty-five years ago they were told that they were free, united with others of our. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time been ashamed. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked - if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow.īut the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. category: quotes << prev AR Experiments on Android up Blog Index next > 3D Printer email phone +1 814.359. True, we are weak and defenseless, but the only reply to the murderer is revolt Brothers Better to fall as free fighters than to live by the mercy of the.Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse.
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