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“Double collaboration was noticed by Jews and Poles in these places, but is absent in both Ukrainian and German histories of the war. —” quote by Timothy Snyder — Download Open image

““Double collaboration was noticed by Jews and Poles in these places, but is absent in both Ukrainian and German histories of the war. —””

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“salami tactics—slicing off layers of opposition one by one. Most people were distracted, some were imprisoned, and others were outmatched.”

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“The key to this translation of ideology to politics in both cases was an effective appeal to human experience at the crucial time.”

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“Both of these positions, inevitability and eternity, are antihistorical. The only thing that stands between them is history itself. History allows us to see patterns and make judgments. It sketches for us the structures within which we can seek freedom. It reveals moments, of each of them different, none entirely unique. To understand one moment is to see the possibility…

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“As she observed, “the first essential step on the road to total domination is to kill the juridical person in man.”

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“The first mode is the open hostility to verifiable reality, which takes the form of presenting inventions and lies as if they were facts.”

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