Europe was a very different place then, after hundreds of years of wars crossing borders, empires rising and falling, WWI, economic collapse and political violence. That helps explain how Hitler could take power and how the unacceptable gradually became acceptable. It does not excuse it. But I would not be too comfortable thinking we are fundamentally different today. Look at how quickly people can accept talk about taking Greenland, threatening other countries, bombing abroad and even killing people at sea, as long as they believe their own side has a good reason. History does not have to repeat exactly to teach us something. People are still people.
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