Quote for the Day

"A great majority of Germans remained faithful to their fuehrer, many of them to the end, and, it has to be admitted, quite a few even after the end. That, for a historian, is a puzzling situation. Stalin was feared by the Russians—admired by only a section of the population. Roosevelt was hated by many people in America. Churchill was hated by many people in England. But in Germany, you find adoration of Hitler — even after Stalingrad, even towards the end when everything was in ruins. The psychology of this I do not understand very well," – Saul Friedlaander, Dissent. It is the psychology of political theology, fused with unrestrained nationalism and hero-worship. And it’s far more powerful than many seem now to believe.