In my library I have a book about citizens from Nazi Germany. The title of the book is, "They Thought They Were Free".

A website about the book suggests, "It is a book that should make people pause and think -- not only about the Germans, but also about themselves".

The process of a society becoming fascist is a gradual one:

" To live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it - please try to believe me - unless one has a much greater degree of political awareness, acuity, than most of us had ever had occasion to develop. Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, "regretted," that, unless one were detached from the whole process from the beginning, unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these "little measures" that no "patriotic German" could resent must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing. One day it is over his head.

Anti-war Prose