Keith June

“American”
― Stephen E. Ambrose, D-Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II

“Democratic government that relied on direct representation and universal suffrage could not succeed, since it assumed an equality within the Volk that did not exist. To a certain extent, scientists and engineers—like women, the working class, churches, and so on—gained access to power through the Führer. This was the “leader principle” that operated in all Nazi institutions and drew strength from the tradition of monarchic authoritarianism in Germany. In 1934, Hitler declared himself not only chancellor but “leader.” This meant he claimed not only constitutional powers but extragovernmental powers that required his followers to declare their allegiance to him. He expressed the true will of the Volk so that any opposition or criticism was precluded. No interests or groups or ideas existed alongside him: “In place of conflicts and compromise, there was to be only the absolute enemy on whom the sights of the unified nation were fixed” (Bracher 1970, pp. 340–44). Since authority and power originated with Hitler, the fate”
― Paul R. Josephson, Totalitarian Science and Technology

“Theirs not to reason why/Theirs but to do and die,” even if the soldiers did not know the source. Those on Omaha Beach who had committed the poem to memory surely muttered to themselves, “Some one had blunder’d.”)”
― Stephen E. Ambrose, D-Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II

“Race on the World Stage Phrenology was both a mental science and a racial science. In New York City, Combe held skulls aloft, inviting his audience to “compare the heads of the Negroes with those of the North American Indians.” It was phrenology, Combe told his audience, that best explained the history of the different “races of man.” Holding up a Native American skull, Combe pointed out that “the Indian has more Destructiveness, less Cautiousness, less Benevolence.” This explained why Native Americans could not be enslaved. According to Combe, “he has retained his freedom by being the proud, indomitable, and destructive Savage which such a combination indicates.” In contrast, the “Negro” was “gentler in nature” and so more easily subdued. Combe concluded by comparing the Native American and African skulls, suggesting that “had the Negroes possessed a similar organization, to make useful slaves of them would have been impossible.”67 Phrenology, therefore, both”
― James Poskett, Materials of the Mind: Phrenology, Race, and the Global History of Science, 1815-1920