“I fooled myself. I had to. Everybody has to. If the good had been twice as good and the bad only half as bad, I still ought to have see it, all through as I did in the beginning, because… — Milton Mayer Copy Share
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 and its 'necessities' gave them the knowledge that they could get away with it. The people abroad who thought that… — Milton Mayer Copy Share
The marvels - of film, radio, and television - are marvels of one-way communication, which is not communication at all. — Milton Mayer Copy Share Image
“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.” — Milton Mayer Copy Share
Scott Buchanan . . . taught me that the questions that can be answered are not worth asking. — Milton Mayer Copy Share Image
“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 resentment, from trust and fear to suspicion. The development seems to have been inherent; it needed no planning and had none. As the Nazi emphasis on nonintellectual virtues (patriotism, loyalty, duty, purity, labor, simplicity, "blood," "folkishness")… — Milton Mayer Copy Share
“I fooled myself. I had to. Everybody has to. If the good had been twice as good and the bad only half as bad, I still ought to have see it, all through as I did in the beginning, because I am, as you say, sensitive. But I didn't want to see it, because I would have then had to… — Milton Mayer Copy Share
I have never been able to understand why it is that just because I am unintelligible nobody understands me. — Milton Mayer Copy Share Image
“The world once purged by flood ends always again in the surer purgative of fire.” — Milton Mayer Copy Share Image
The American goes to Paris, always has, and comes back and tells his neighbor, always does, how exorbitant and inhospitable it is, how rapacious… — Milton Mayer Copy Share Image
“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 were in 1933. When mass dictatorship occurred in Russia, then in Italy, we said to one another, 'That is what happens in backward countries. We are fortunate, for all our troubles, that it cannot happen here.'… — Milton Mayer Copy Share
“How is this to be avoided, among ordinary men, even highly educated ordinary men? Frankly, I do not know. I do not see, even… — Milton Mayer Copy Share Image
