“The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference.”

—  Ian Kershaw

As quoted in Popular Opinion and Political Dissent in the Third Reich: Bavaria 1933-45 https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0198219229 (1983), p. 277.

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