Monday, November 13, 2017

We have been warned!-----The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany: William L. Shirer

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany: William L. Shirer
"…Hitler’s contempt for “professors” and the intellectual academic life had peppered the pages of Mein Kampf, in which he had set down some of his ideas on education.
...But, even more important, he had stressed in his book the importance of winning over and then training the youth in the service “of a new national state”—a subject he returned to often after he became the German dictator.
“When an opponent declares, ‘I will not come over to your side,’” he said in a speech on November 6, 1933, “I calmly say, ‘Your child belongs to us already … What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. 
Ina short time they will know nothing else but this new community...’” 

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