Exactly my point. Saying something will never happen because it hasn't happened so far shows a lack of understanding about social forces and change.
Often they build slowly, then let go all at once. Like an avalanche, they are damned hard to predict, but you can often see the signs of something building.
One of my Favorite Scientists in History was Leo Szilard. He got on a train leaving Germany hours before they closed the borders to Jews trying to escape, seemingly as if he knew exactly when things would break.
@DiogenesLamp He most likely did know. He was an intelligent man and was friends with intelligent Germans. No doubt one of more of his colleagues heard about it and passed him the word to get the hell out of Dodge,NOW.
Not all Germans were dedicated Nazi's and Jew-haters. Probably not even 20 percent of them,if you want me to pull a number out of the air.
The one number I am positive is pretty accurate is the number "100 percent" when it is related to the "number of Germans smart enough to stay quite to avoid taking train rides themselves".
I had a good friend in the US Army whose mother enrolled him in the Nazi Youth when he was a small child. He has told me he remembers being pushed out along the curb by his mother in his Nazi Youth uniform to give Hitler the Nazi salute when he rode past during parades. By the end of the war he and his mother were the only two living members of his family,and being a member of the Nazi Youth meant they would have an apartment and food to eat. It was about survival,not faith. His father and his uncles were all career German Army officers,and they all died on the Eastern Front.
By the time the war ended his mother was also killed during the bombing of Berlin. He was maybe 14,and the sole survivor of his family.
