Robert Hahn, writing for
American Scholar, details Linz Austria, Hitler's home town or at least where he spent the majority of his youth.
Hahn goes into some detail about Hitler's plans for Linz and the role of the nearby Mauthausen Quarry & concentration camp. He also notes current residents understandably would rather forget, or at least put behind them, that part of Linz history.
What struck me is a quote from a Linz resident.
Quote:
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A current resident of Linz recalled for an interviewer what it was like in those days and how he felt about it. “The horror,” he said, “the horror that we felt at the beginning, that a person can treat another person like that—it died away somehow. That’s how it is, isn’t it?”
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That's how it happens, that's how most people cope with horrible situations whether it be from officials in power, or black sheep family.
You can freak out, become the resistance, railing against the injustice, and likely be squashed like a bug.
Or nose to the grindstone, don't know/see/say nothing nohow, hoping this too shall pass, until it just becomes accepted reality.
Some choices.
