I should like to think that had I been around at the time I would have been a convinced anti-Nazi engaged in the underground resistance fight. However, I know really that I would have been as confused and felt as helpless as most of the people I am writing about.

— Ian Kershaw Popular Opinion and Political Dissent in the Third Reich, Bavaria 1933-1945 (1983)

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