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the author is describing the slow march towards nazism in germany during he 1930s, which ultimately led to the holocaust. based on the excerpt what do you feel is the best defense against the rise of fascism?
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what happened here was the gradual habituation of the people little by little to being governed by surprise to receiving decisions deliberated in secret to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand or so dangerous they even if the people could not understand it it could not be released because of national security and their sense of identification with hitler their was trust in him made it easier to widen his gap and reassure those who would otherwise have worried about it the separation of government from people this widening of the gap to play so gradually and so insensibly each step disguised perhaps not even intentionally as a temporary emergency measure of associated with true patriotic allegiance or with real social purpose and all the crises and reforms real reforms to so occupied the people that they did not see the slow-motion underneath of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter.
those i said are the words of my friend the baker one had no time to think there was so much going on to live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it try to believe me unless one has a much greater degree of political awareness accuracy than most of us had ever had occasion to develop each step was so small so inconsequential sowell explained or on occasion regretted that unless one were detached from the whole process from the beginning less one understood what the whole thing was in particular what all this little measures that no patriotic german could resent but someday lead to one no more saw it developing from day-to-day that a farmer in his field sees the corn growing one day it is over his head from they thought they were free by milton mayor