Please, trust me on this. Its important.

This article articulates and summarizes many of the points I have tried to make over the last few years on this forum. Hopefully, the prestige and eloquence of this historian will carry more weight than I do.

I suspect Christopher Browning does not get his historical analysis from my rants on the Habitable Zone. And this man certainly didn’t mold or influence mine. The article below will appear in the next issue of the New York Review of Books, dated 25 Oct of this year, but is available now on line.

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/10/25/suffocation-of-democracy/

Just one small excerpt…but there are many more rhymes in this song for you to consider.

Because an ever-shrinking base of support for traditional conservatism made it impossible to carry out their authoritarian revision of the constitution, Hindenburg and the old right ultimately made their deal with Hitler and installed him as chancellor. Thinking that they could ultimately control Hitler while enjoying the benefits of his popular support, the conservatives were initially gratified by the fulfillment of their agenda: intensified rearmament, the outlawing of the Communist Party, the suspension first of freedom of speech, the press, and assembly and then of parliamentary government itself, a purge of the civil service, and the abolition of independent labor unions. Needless to say, the Nazis then proceeded far beyond the goals they shared with their conservative allies, who were powerless to hinder them in any significant way.