“Freedom dies by people just taking a little bit more and a little bit more…we just end up in a situation people are like ‘How the fuck did we end up here?’ And at some point down the line you...
“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. 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.”
Source: They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45
Source: They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45