A different time, the same words.

I've been reading, The Forger's Spell, an interesting non-fiction book about a man who forged and sold a faux-Vermeer to Hermann Goering. A chapter about Goering contains a comment he made to a psychologist at Nuremberg:

The people can always be brought to do the bidding of their leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for their lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.

There's something familiar about that thought . . .