It took just twelve short years for Germany to go from hoodlums pushing people around on the street, to much of Europe lying in smoldering ruins with the stench of death everywhere. The wheels of tyranny move quickly.
“hoodlums pushing people around on the street”
“Knockout game”?
If you had described the Holocaust and a continent in ruins to the average German of 1928, they would have said “that can’t happen here.” In 1955 they were all asking “how could we have let this happen?”