I fail to see how a simple overview of a book about the pre-war conditions in Germany, needs to somehow draw parallels to current events - or re you refering to NPR in general?
But over the subsequent four years, the Dodd family grew uneasy as they watched Hitler consolidate his power and impose increasingly severe restrictions on Germany’s Jewish population.
I was simplisticaly comparing Hitler’s actions to our current situation.
You fail to see how a leader consolidates power and progressively erodes the constitutional safeguards against tyranny relavant? Really?
I fail to see how a simple overview of a book about the pre-war conditions in Germany, needs to somehow draw parallels to current events - or re you refering to NPR in general?
I was wondering the same thing
Both John Bachelor and Milt Rosenberg (WGN Chicago ) reviewed the book. In Bachelor’s 1 segment review he for some reason concenstrated on Dodd’s daughter who hooked up with the head of the emerging GESTAPO and also shacked up with Stalin’s chief spy in Berlin. . But he did conclude with FDR’s contribution to foreign policy promoting American style democracy and idealism which since FDR’s time which has been followed by every president excepting the present one.