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A 1955 writer casually dropping a “Germans tended to go along with Nazis just like your all-American wife goes along with segregation” is both the answer and the question for “how we got here”
katz.theracket.news Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · Aug 27
Hell of a passage to read in twenty twenty five
to Chicago or vice versa, the locat and, by transference, the community, too. The German community-the rest of the seventy million Germans, apart from the million or so who operated the whole machinery of Nazism-had nothing to do except not to interfere. Absolutely nothing was expected of them except to go on as they had, paying their taxes, reading their local paper, and listening to the radio. Everybody attended local celebrations of national occasions-hadn't the schools and the stores always been closed for the Kaiser's birthday?—so you attended, too. Everybody contributed money and time to worthy purposes, so you did, too. In America your wife collects or distributes clothing, gives an afternoon a week to the Red Cross or the orphanage or the hospital; in Germany she did the same thing in the Nazi Frauenbund, and for the same reasons. The Frauen-bund, like the Red Cross, was patriotic and humanitarian; 57 The Lives Men Lead did your wife ask the Red Cross if "Negro" plasma was segregated from "white"? One minded one's own business in Germany, with or without a dictatorship. The random leisure which leads Americans into all sorts of afterhour byways, constructive, amusing, or ruinous, did not exist for most Germans. One didn't go out of one's way, on a day off, to "look for trouble" thoro loon ta
August 27, 2025 at 3:02 AM