I'm reading a book called 'In the Garden Of Beasts', by Erik Larsen. It's about the US Ambassador to Germany and the lead up to the Second World War. Two nights ago, I happened upon this passage.
"Earlier in the year, for example, Göring had claimed with utter sobriety that 300 German Americans had been murdered in front of Independence Hall at the start of the past world war. Messersmith (George S Messersmith, head of the US Consulate in Berlin), in a dispatch, observed that even smart, well-traveled Germans will 'sit and calmly tell you the most extraordinary fairy tales'."
This is how it starts. We're living in a very dangerous time.
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