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> [Once the war began, the government could do anything 'necessary' to win it; so it was with the 'final solution of the Jewish problem,' which the Nazis always talked about but never dared undertake, not even the Nazis, until war…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milton-mayer/once-the-war-began-the-government-could-do-anything-necessary-to-win/)

[Milton Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milton-mayer/)

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## More by Milton Mayer

> [Once the war began, the government could do anything 'necessary' to win it; so it was with the 'final solution of the Jewish problem,'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milton-mayer/once-the-war-began-the-government-could-do-anything-necessary-to-win/)

[Milton Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milton-mayer/)

> [The marvels - of film, radio, and television - are marvels of one-way communication, which is not communication at all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milton-mayer/the-marvels-of-film-radio-and-television-are-marvels-of-one-way/)

[Milton Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milton-mayer/)

> [“It was not anti-Semitism or socialism or the New Order that first animated the Nazis; their first slogal was, "Break the chains of Versailles.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milton-mayer/it-was-not-anti-semitism-or-socialism-or-the-new-order-that-first/)

[Milton Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milton-mayer/)

> [Scott Buchanan . . . taught me that the questions that can be answered are not worth asking.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milton-mayer/scott-buchanan-taught-me-that-the-questions-that-can-be-answered-are/)

[Milton Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milton-mayer/)

> [“In the years of its rise the movement little by little brought the community's attitude toward the teacher around from respect and envy to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milton-mayer/in-the-years-of-its-rise-the-movement-little-by-little-brought-the/)

[Milton Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milton-mayer/)

> [“I fooled myself. I had to. Everybody has to. If the good had been twice as good and the bad only half as bad,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milton-mayer/i-fooled-myself-i-had-to-everybody-has-to-if-the-good-had-been-twice/)

[Milton Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milton-mayer/)

> [I have never been able to understand why it is that just because I am unintelligible nobody understands me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milton-mayer/i-have-never-been-able-to-understand-why-it-is-that-just-because-i-am/)

[Milton Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milton-mayer/)

> [“The world once purged by flood ends always again in the surer purgative of fire.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milton-mayer/the-world-once-purged-by-flood-ends-always-again-in-the-surer/)

[Milton Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milton-mayer/)

> [“Why does a man want his children to be better than himself?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milton-mayer/why-does-a-man-want-his-children-to-be-better-than-himself/)

[Milton Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milton-mayer/)

> [The American goes to Paris, always has, and comes back and tells his neighbor, always does, how exorbitant and inhospitable it is, how rapacious…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milton-mayer/the-american-goes-to-paris-always-has-and-comes-back-and-tells-his/)

[Milton Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milton-mayer/)

> [“I think," says Professor Carl Hermann, who never left his homeland, "that even now the outside world does not realize how surprised we non-Nazis…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milton-mayer/i-think-says-professor-carl-hermann-who-never-left-his-homeland-that/)

[Milton Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milton-mayer/)

> [“How is this to be avoided, among ordinary men, even highly educated ordinary men? Frankly, I do not know. I do not see, even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milton-mayer/how-is-this-to-be-avoided-among-ordinary-men-even-highly-educated/)

[Milton Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milton-mayer/)

> [“None of my ten friends, even today, ascribes moral evil to Hitler, although most of them think (after the fact) that he made fatal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milton-mayer/none-of-my-ten-friends-even-today-ascribes-moral-evil-to-hitler/)

[Milton Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milton-mayer/)

> [“In the body politic as in the body personal, nonresistance to the milder indulgences paves the way for nonresistance to the deadlier.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milton-mayer/in-the-body-politic-as-in-the-body-personal-nonresistance-to-the/)

[Milton Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milton-mayer/)

> [“The fact is, I think, that my friends really didn't know. They didn't know because they didn't want to know; but they didn't know.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milton-mayer/the-fact-is-i-think-that-my-friends-really-didn-t-know-they-didn-t/)

[Milton Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milton-mayer/)

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