During the Nuremberg Trails, Gustave Gilbert, an American psychologist told Herman Göring that the average person did not want to be dragged into war, Göring’s response was “Why, of course, the people don’t want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to the farm in one piece? … It is always a simple matter to drag the people along .. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to greater danger”
Excerpt from Sinai, J. (2022) Walter Barbara F. How Civil Wars Start – and How to Stop Them.
“Those who can make you believe in absurdities can make you commit atrocities”
-Voltaire
Notes on the book in the link below:
https://bambootrading.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/How-Civil-War-Starts-Barbara-Walters.pdf