1941-08 Who Goes Nazi

• when: 1941/08
• author: Dorothy Thompson
• source: Harper's Magazine
• topics: Nazism Americanism
• keywords
• link: https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/
• title: Who Goes Nazi?
• summary: "It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one's acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go Nazi."

Full quote:

"It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one's acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go Nazi. By now, I think I know. I have gone through the experience many times – in Germany, in Austria, and in France. I have come to know the types: the born Nazis, the Nazis whom democracy itself has created, the certain-to-be fellow-travelers. And I also know those who never, under any conceivable circumstances, would become Nazis."