In 2025, I made a project of reading the Third Reich trilogy, by Richard J. Evans, a definitive history of Nazi Germany. Evans details the police state established by Adolf Hitler, noting that Nazi terror was not “levelled exclusively against small and despised minorities” but that the “threat of arrest, prosecution and incarceration in increasingly brutal and violent conditions loomed over everyone.” He explains how the Nazi regime “intimidated Germans into acquiescence” and how “fear and terror were integral parts of the Nazis’ armoury of political weapons from the very beginning.”