Ask any one who lived in countries through situations like that,the'll tell you like it is.
Not just from WW2 but through all the tyrannical govt. and regimes.
I have friends and realatives from Poland telling me we as Americans better wake the f up otherwise we'll wind up where they were 20 years ago....
^This! I have good friends who have each lived through various events where they lived: Hitler's regime, Pol Pot, Vietnam, Red China and some other ethnic cleansings and the like. It ain't pretty and we need to learn from it all...
“Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.” – Rev. Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) US Abolitionist Preacher