Germans and Nazis
J,OLLOW MY LEADER was the title of a long BBC programme, but it was not about childish games. If you knew the subject-matter of Louis Hagen’s book, from which it was adapted, you would know this; but is the book sufficiently well known to justify such cryptic titling? This programme, heard in two parts, gave a careful and convincing reconstruction of tHe lives of six Germans under the Nazi regime. These Germans were people, not merely slidk journalistic puppets personifying a class, and the inevitability of their collaboration with the party in .power was almost embarrassing to the listener slumped in his comfortable chair hoping that all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds. If the programme.did nothing to make us ad-_ mire the Nazis, it at least brought before us vividly the moral clearsightedness and strength of the professed anti-Nazi, at a time when to follow the leader was considered only prudent, but sublimely worthy.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 717, 10 April 1953, Page 11
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163Germans and Nazis New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 717, 10 April 1953, Page 11
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