A Haunting Quotation

“There was a fever over the land. A fever of disgrace, of indignity, of hunger. We had a democracy, yes, but it was torn by elements within. Above all, there was fear. Fear of today, fear of tomorrow, fear of our neighbors, and fear of ourselves. Only when you understand that, can you understand what Hitler meant to us. Because he said to us, ‘Lift your heads, be proud to be German. There are devils among us: communists, liberals, Jews, Gypsies. Once these devils will be destroyed, your misery will be destroyed.’”

- Burt Lancaster as Ernst Janning, “Judgment at Nuremberg”