Conversation

I’m reading this book, first published in 1955 by an American journalist of German Jewish descent, Milton Mayer. He interviews 10 ordinary Germans to understand how they became complicit in the mass hysteria of Nazism. I’m finding it to be prescient and chilling. Recommended reading for anyone interested in understanding what Hannah Arendt described as the “banality of evil”. Relevant to what’s happening now, unfortunately.