Hitler's Willing Citizens - And Us

[kpete]

Fascinating piece in the NYT more:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/16/world/europe/16hitler.html?_r=1&hpw today about how popular Hitler was in middle-class Germany in the 1930s, revealed in a new exhibition in Berlin. It takes the Goldhagen thesis and extends it to knitting circles.

Money quote:

“This is what we call self-mobilization of society,” said Hans-Ulrich Thamer, one of three curators to assemble the exhibit at the German Historical Museum. “As a person, Hitler was a very ordinary man. He was nothing without the people.”

btw...

John Boehner donated to Rich Iott, candidate in Nazi flap
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/43553.html#ixzz12Y2JnN00
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/43553.html