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About the war
(from the cycle: How to make people fight)
The American officer Gustav Gilbert in his book “The Nuremberg Diary” recalled how on April 18, 1946, in Hermann Goering’s prison cell, they had the following conversation about how to make people fight
Goering: “Of course, people do not want war. Why should a poor peasant risk his life when the most he can hope for after the war is to return to his village safe and sound? Of course, ordinary people do not want war either. war in Russia, not in England, not in America, not in Germany for that matter. This is understandable. But, in the end, it is the leaders who determine the politics of the country, and it is always easy for them to attract the people with them, be it a fascist or communist dictatorship, or parliamentary democracy. “
Gilbert: “There is a difference. In a democracy, the people have the right to speak through their elect, and in the United States, only Congress has the right to declare war.”
Goering: “All this, of course, is wonderful, but the people, regardless of whether they have the right to vote or not, can always be forced to obey their leaders. It is not difficult. All that is required is to declare to the people that his country was attacked, accusing all supporters. peace in the absence of patriotism and in the fact that they endanger the homeland. It works the same in any country “
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