"A coffee house by the university had burned down. TENS OF THOUSANDS CHEER HITLER SPEECH IN REGENSBURG."Fictional excerpts from the Budapest evening paper in April 1938. From Kingdom of Shadows by Alan Furst, page 41.
This passage made a surprising impact on me. We spend a great deal of time denouncing Hitler and how evil he was, but either I never realized, or I had forgotten, how he came to be in power. He was wildly popular. The "people" loved him. Any time someone gets that much positive feedback, he is likely to believe whatever he is saying.
Popular does not necessarily mean right. That concludes our lesson for today. You may now return to your regularly scheduled programming.
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