“When this book was first published it received some attention from the critics but none at all from the public. Nazism was finished in the bunker in Berlin and its death warrant signed on the bench at Nuremberg.” Milton Mayer
— Cass Sunstein, The New York Review of Books, published on 2018-06-28
“A timely reminder of how otherwise unremarkable and in many ways reasonable people can be seduced by demagogues and populists.”
— Richard J. Evans, author of, The Coming of the Third Reich
“Mr. Mayer’s book is the fruit of a year which he passed in a German university town; it is composed of what might be called a series of meditations upon discussions which he held chiefly with ten former Nazis. Why had these men – including among them a baker, a tailor, a teacher and a policeman – become Nazis in the first place? Why had they participated in the crimes of the movement? How do they feel now after the defeat and after the ‘re-education’ of the occupying forces? Mr. Mayer’s answers are sensitively worked out.”
— NY Herald Tribune, published on 1955-05-29
“[Mayer] wrote earnestly without an offensive earnest tone. He took stances without posturing. There is art in that.”
— The Washington Post, published on 1986-06-15
“Among the many books written on Germany after the collapse of Hitler’s Thousand Year Reich, this book by Milton Mayer is one of the most readable and most enlightening…never before has the mentality of the average German under the Nazi regime been made as intelligible to the outsider as in Mr. Mayer’s report.” The New York Times, published on 1955-05-08
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