Only those who recognized Nazism’s break immediately managed to flee in time

Evidence

A natural human tendency is to try to continue with as ordinary and civilised a life as possible, for as long as one can. Bruno Bettelheim later observed that, under Nazism, only a few people realised at once that life could not continue unaltered: these were the ones who got away quickly. Bettelheim himself was not among them. Caught in Austria when Hitler annexed it, he was sent first to Dachau and then to Buchenwald, but was then released in a mass amnesty to celebrate Hitler’s birthday in 1939 — an extraordinary reprieve, after which he left at once for America. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 285

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Close runner but arguably not top-5% caliber; keep moderate.
• XREF: connects to: The Frankfurt Institute’s own data told them to flee immediately in 1933 — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 441

Broader Connections

• The Frankfurt Institute’s own data told them to flee immediately in 1933 #exemplifies (0.78) — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 441