It’s comforting to believe we’d have been the brave ones—the ones who spoke out, hid families, refused to salute. But history tells a harder truth: most people didn’t resist. They adjusted. They stayed quiet. They told themselves it wasn’t their fight.
Now, under Trump’s second term, as civil liberties are gutted and cruelty becomes policy, that question from history—Where would you have stood?—is no longer academic.
This video introduces the article Where Would You Have Stood in Nazi Germany?—a piece that traces the spectrum of roles people played under fascism, and asks where each of us stands now. The full article also includes a letter from a so-called “Good German”—a man who stayed silent, and lived long enough to regret it.
Watch the preview now.
Read the full article starting July 27, 2025.
