Everyone laughed at Hitler in the 1920s. A century on, are we making the same mistake?


by The Guardian

The Guardian— Just because we find a political leader ludicrous, that doesn’t mean they’re not dangerousThere’s something I heard that I can’t get out of my mind. It’s one line in a very long book full of other very good lines. This was the audiobook of Ian Kershaw’s seminal biography of Adolf Hitler. It’s absorbing, exhaustive, fascinating and alarming in equal measure. But there is this one line that won’t leave me alone. I was driving on a bleak day on a country road when I heard it for the first time. I...

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