“We tend to assume that institutions will automatically maintain themselves against even the most direct attacks. This was the very mistake that some German Jews made about Hitler and the Nazis…”
‘We do not subscribe to the view that Mr. Hitler and his friends, now finally in possession of the power they have so long desired, will implement the proposals circulating in [Nazi newspapers]…‘
1933 editorial in leading newspaper for German Jews.
“The mistake is to assume that rulers who came to power through institutions cannot change or destroy those very institutions– even when that is exactly what they have announced they will do.” pp. 23-24.
Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny, https://a.co/d/4mjIvtZ
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