*It Can Happen Anywhere*
Mises Daily: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 by Wendy McElroy
http://mises.org/daily/5280/It-Can-Happen-Anywhere
"Defying Hitler is a mesmerizing memoir written by the German journalist
Sebastian Haffner (a pseudonym for Raimund Pretzel) shortly after he
emigrated from Germany to England with his Jewish wife in 1938. In it,
Haffner explores a question similar to one that has haunted me since
9/11. He examines how a highly cultured and civilized nation could slip
so quickly into the barbaric totalitarianism of Nazi rule. My version of
this question is, how could America, a nation with deep roots in
individual freedom, so quickly slide into a police state?"
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Freedom is always illegal!
When we ask for freedom, we have already failed. It is only when we
declare freedom for ourselves and refuse to accept any less, that we
have any possibility of being free.
"Why should we bother with 'realities' when we have the psychological
refuge of unthinking patriotism?"
Gary Leupp - Professor of History, Tufts University
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