We each and every one must fight this with all Constitutional and personal powers. What American Citizens must do- to still be citizens in a free country. Going to re-read William Shirer’s Berlin Diary for the sake of examining the rise from Bismarck’s socialist buy offs to crazed National Socialism (which was rooted in Marx and Communists which the Kaiser supported in deposing the last Romanov- his own cousin. Seems impossible but there it is).
The collapse of the West is coming soon. The world will enter in a period of dark ages. So we need to preserve the knowledge of our ancestors so we will get to rebuild quicker after the collapse.
Be careful with Shirer. He was a journalist, not an objective one. Nor was he a historian.
His work was, if you ask me, an early case of „advocacy journalism“, which, as another wise Freeper wrote, used to be called „propaganda“.
The fact that he was a fanatic Germanophobe, alongside the other assorted honorable (?) members of the „Society for the prevention of WW III“, doesn‘t help either.
He was what might be called a „Sunday-afternoon writer“ - and about Germany he and his despicable fellow writers, Rex Stout, H.T. Tetens, Eleanor Roosevelt and others of similar ilk, are about as reliable as Howard Zinn and N. Chomsky are on American history.
Yes, you can always tell an ideologue, but you can never tell him much, as the old saying goes.