Kort Explores conundrums of the human condition

"When our party had only 7 members, we had 2 goals. First, to be an ideological party. And second, to be a Party of Power. The one and only Power in Germany."

"The masses will always believe a big lie rather than a small one."

"Only terror can smash terror."

Adolf Hitler, Nazi Party member #7
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"If I could speak English, I could conquer England in a year."

"We go into battle as though in God's service, with our obedient children and faithful wives before our eyes. We cry revenge for our violated earth for which our enemies will perish."

Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Enlightenment & Propaganda
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"Where ever they burn books, they will burn human beings too."

Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), Author of books of Poetry burned by the Nazis
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"[The Nazis] were a raucous, loutish bunch who were saying many unpleasant things. But everybody that I knew considered them as sort of a nut group. I'm not conscious of the fact that anyone that I was familiar with ever thought that they would come to power."

"The people that had children of my age, they all left or tried to leave. The middle aged and older people could not believe that things would get worse than they already were, and they thought that they could outlast it."

Henry Kissinger, Former Secretary of State, Schoolboy in Germany in 1930's
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"Too many intellectuals, too many members of the Army knew darn well that this was a government of murderers, and they didn't do anything."

Wolfgang Stresemann, Berlin, 1934
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"All that's necessary for evil to flourish is for good people to do nothing."

General Norman Schwarzkopf
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Those who are so anxious to build prisons today forget that the Nazi death camps were originally built for the temporary detention of those classified as criminals by the German government. Civil statutes were used by the Nazis to arrest large numbers of citizens considered a threat to their absolute power during the political unrest of the 1930's. Later, when the Nazis started the Holocaust in earnest, the infrastructure needed to serve their genocidal intentions was already in hand.

During his bloody rise to absolute power, Hitler condemned over a hundred thousand German citizens to the camps for nothing more than speaking out against his fascist Reich. Over 60 million people died in WWII because no one listened...