“Every man, especially the youth, can be manipulated. The more you say to him, that’s the way of life, they believe it. Without being more bad than the other is. That was why a lot of German people were running behind Hitler. There’s a great danger all the time. If you get that much of people without work, if someone would come and say, “I will give you work so that your family doesn’t have to suffer,” they will run behind him. I guess if the same would happen in the United States, a lot of people would run behind Adolf Hitler, too. They don’t care about what that man will do after they got work.That’s the great danger in the future, too. If people don’t think more than they do now, someday perhaps there will be one or two other Adolf Hitlers in another name.”

- Hans Gobeler in “The Good War”: An Oral History of World War II by Studs Terkel

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