[Rusty0604]

I’ reading “Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934-1941”. Pretty interesting take on how the masses in Germany and rest of Europe let Hitler happen. Also how British and Americans were misinformed by the media.

[cyborg]

Yep...that’s on my list. Books like those take me awhile because I have to put it down and think of America.

[abb]

Pretty interesting take on how the masses in Germany and rest of Europe let Hitler happen. Also how British and Americans were misinformed by the media.

The masses were enthralled by the abdication of Edward VIII and his subsequent marriage to Wallis Simpson. That's all they wanted to hear about, rather than some Nazi politician. The media of the day gave them what they wanted.

Considering the bread and circuses that the occupy the attention of today's masses, it seems human nature doesn't change much.

[jjotto]

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005182

[First_Salute]

*Last Train From Berlin* by Howard K. Smith, who later became an ABC-TV news anchor.