Adam D’s Reviews > They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45 > Status Update

This book is insane. Why can’t we learn from the past.

“As the Nazi emphasis on nonintellectual virtues (patriotism, loyalty, duty, purity, labor, simplicity, “blood,” “folk-ishness”) seeped through Germany, elevating the self-esteem of the “little man,” the academic profession was pushed from the very center to the very periphery of society”

Seems pretty relevant rn