Absolutely, 'it can't happen here' is a complete delusion, it can happen here and in fact to a certain degree it is already happening here.
But from my reading without that massive propaganda engine, especially Hitlers radio broadcasts of Goebbels poison there would have been more Germans still thinking clearly.
I can't recommend this book enough for a - chilling - insight into the runup to World War II and how the propaganda engine set the stage for what followed:
But from my reading without that massive propaganda engine, especially Hitlers radio broadcasts of Goebbels poison there would have been more Germans still thinking clearly.
I can't recommend this book enough for a - chilling - insight into the runup to World War II and how the propaganda engine set the stage for what followed:
https://www.amazon.com/Nazi-Conscience-Claudia-Koonz/dp/0674...
It is especially sobering when you realize how much of that parallels developments today.