How could a nation, which was one of the leaders of the Enlightenment only a couple of centuries earlier, descend into such darkness as that which created the Holocaust? The question is not purely a historical one that applies only to Germany fifty years ago.
It is also a psychological one that applies to us now, here in America, and in the rest of the world. It is a question about the human condition.
For if what happened to a people like the Germans, whose genes and genius produced not only Hitler but Goethe, Kant, Kepler, Mozart, and Schweitzer (to mention only a few), what does this say about the rest of us? ... (p. 4)
The Eruption of the Shadow in Nazi Germany - Michael Gellert
