"In a time of great danger, all types of people move into leadership poistions.
"Look at the times we have been through: first the war, then the difficulties of post war life, inflation und terrible poverty. Add to all that unemployment.
"When people are engulfed in a horrible existence and see the future as a grey and impossible, then they will listen to the promises of people they know nothing about".
That is a quote from the father of the Scholl siblings, who were involved in distributing leaflets in Munich in 1942 opposed to the Nazis.
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