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“At the beginning, certainly they were not Nazis. About fifteen of us would get together to talk and to try to find arguments opposing theirs… From time to time, one of our friends said: “I don’t agree with them… but on certain points, nevertheless, I must admit, for example, the Jews…” etc… Three weeks later… would become a Nazi… Towards the end, only three or four of us were still resisting.”

10. Believe in Truth — “You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case…truth dies in four modes…the first mode is the open hostility to verifiable reality, which takes the form of presenting inventions and lies as if they were facts.”

"When the men with guns who have always claimed to be against the system start wearing uniforms and marching with torches and pictures of a leader, the end is nigh. When the pro-leader paramilitary and the official police and military intermingle, the end has come."