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“The Nazi effort to foster the relationship between the police and society took many forms, including a new public relations event, the ‘Day of the German Police’. It was held for the first time just before Christmas in 1934, and every year across Germany thereafter around that time to show the gentler and social side of the police, who collected money for the charity ‘Winter Help Works’.”
― Robert Gellately, Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany

“She remembers how she ‘wanted only to see the good’ and the rest she ‘simply shoved aside’.”
― Robert Gellately, Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany

“a police official in SS uniform, probably a member of the Gestapo, turned up in a senior high school class in the Stuttgart area. He was there to explain the background of ‘shootings “because of resistance” one could read about from time to time in the press’. He said simply, that while courts worked well when hard evidence could be found, the police had to act when there was insufficient evidence. They knew how to recognize guilt and were not bound by rules of evidence as were judges, so that the police could become the proverbial judge, jury, and executioner. Lest students worry unduly, they were assured that the police did not execute anyone without ‘previously thoroughly examining’ the case.”
― Robert Gellately, Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany

“Morgan recognized that no matter who had physically planted the dynamite, all the city’s white residents were complicit in allowing an environment of hatred and racism to persist.”
― Jemar Tisby, The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism