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They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 by Milton Mayer, an excerpt, 2017 edition

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“It is a fascinating story and a deeply moving one. And it is a story that should make people pause and think—think not only about the Germans, but also about themselves.”—Ernest S. Pisko, Christian Science Monitor “Among the many books written on Germany after the collapse of Hitler's Thousand Year Reich, this book by Milton Mayer is one of the most readable and most enlightening.”—Hans Kohn, New York Times Book Review "What no one seemed to notice," said a colleague of mine, a philologist, "was the ever widening gap, after 1933, between the government and the people. Just think how very wide this gap was to begin with, here in Germany. And it became always wider. You know, it doesn’t make people close to their government to be told that this is a people’s government, a true democracy, or to be enrolled in civilian defense, or even to vote. All this has little, really nothing, to do with knowing one is governing. "What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by

They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 by Milton Mayer, an excerpt, 2017 edition "It is a fascinating story and a deeply moving one. And it is a story that should make people pause and think-think not only about the Germans, but also about themselves."-Ernest S. Pisko, Christian Science Monitor "Among the many books written on Germany after the collapse of Hitler's Thousand Year Reich, this book by Milton Mayer is one of the most readable and most enlightening."-Hans Kohn, New York Times Book Review An excerpt from They Thought They Were Free The Germans, 1933-45 Milton Mayer But Th

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