I used to have an original copy of this book. I had a relative who was a career officer in the US Army including WWII who had died and the book came to me from

I used to have an original copy of this book. I had a relative who was a career officer in the US Army including WWII who had died and the book came to me from his wife when he died. Interesting book but Milton Mayer was an interesting character (he opposed the US entering WWII IIRC for example) and there was a lot of weird stuff in the book where he showed how willing he himself was to go along with the same kind of things that led to the Nazis coming to power. For example he sometimes came off as having a blind side because he was nearly McCarthyist in his treatment of communism. With 60 years of hindsight you could see he made comments that made you think he would have gone along with a corrupt regime if it was able to contain communism, no different than Germans were taken in by the Nazis. I don't think things are that different today. All governments are shades between good and evil, and we all subconsciously ignore things governments do if it is obviously far more personally convenient to tolerate that kind of behavior. Self preservation can easily take precedence over being against evil if you are already in the "in group" that is protected by the evil.