Megan Farve’s Reviews > They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45 > Status Update
Megan Farve
is 45% done
“This separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised… as a temporary emergency measure or associated with true patriotic allegiance or with real social purposes. And all the crises and reforms… so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter.”
— Nov 15, 2025 02:40PM
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Megan Farve
is 28% done
“My friends wanted Germany purified. They wanted it purified of the politicians, of all the politicians. They wanted a representative leader in place of unrepresentative representatives. And Hitler, the pure man, the antipolitician, was the man, untainted by “politics,” which was only a cloak for corruption.”
— Mar 30, 2025 08:04PM
Megan Farve
is 15% done
“Ordinary people—and ordinary Germans—cannot be expected to tolerate activities which outrage the ordinary sense of ordinary decency unless the victims are, in advance, successfully stigmatized as enemies of the people, of the nation, the race, the religion.”
— Feb 27, 2025 05:23PM
Megan Farve
is 14% done
“And so, just as there is when one man dreads the policeman on the beat and another waves “Hello” to him, there are two countries in every country.”
— Feb 27, 2025 05:18PM
Megan Farve
is 13% done
“Decent, hard-working, ordinarily intelligent and honest men, did not know before 1933 that Nazism was evil. They did not know between 1933 and 1945 that it was evil. And they do not know it now… it was a naked, total tyranny which degraded its adherents and enslaved its opponents and adherents alike… a frontal attack upon the worth of the human person and the rights which that worth implies.”
— Feb 27, 2025 05:04PM
