--- Alec Ryrie, closing of his Gresham College lecture "Two Kingdoms in the Third Reich," March 2017.
Closing comments, starting at timecode 51:49:
We might imagine or hope that had we been there, we would've done something or taken some stand, and we are fooling ourselves. We would've understood what was happening around us, in the same way that they did. We would've shared their hopes, their experiences, their resentments, their assumptions, and their prejudices. Like them, we would've lowered our heads and muddled through increasingly terrible times as best we could. There is only one reason that we do not share in that guilt, and it's that we were not there.
