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These books should have been required reading for the last 80 years. The fact you can graduate high school without being able to articulate how the Nazis controlled Germany is an act of evil against every citizen who enters the world.
It was not some ubiquitous evil spirit that usurped the free will of Germans, it was a choice and a set of instructions in which disobeying would lead to death.
Like the passage you quoted - it is a self perpetuating social structure requiring obedience while demanding that "you know what you're doing is wrong in the moral eye of the government" i/e "we don't have to say it's illegal to teach kids to think, we just have to make sure that the moment a kid starts thinking they know to report you for subversion"
Education around nazi germany starts and ends with "they were ontologically evil" and were leading a unified Germany. This is stated as fact without any context of how the election in which they gained control of the government was won with 30% of the vote. We aren't taught that the liberal politicians voted alongside nazis to implement these laws that dissolved the German constitution and gave Hitler full control. We aren't told that they did this "to avoid the disaster of a failed government" and to not be targeted for retribution after the laws passed.
Instead we are given a Disney movie story of Hitler unilaterally usurping supreme control over every German, only being stopped by the heroes of the allied powers once we learned how terrible it was.
No record of the NYT platforming nazis, the German American bund, the resistance to joining ww2, the business plot, chamberlain, Henry Ford NONE of that history is taught.
And now we see why.