04-30-2019, 12:07 PM
Not until after World War II did the 1924/1925 divide between the GI and Silent generation become clear. The men who participated in the most heroic battles and got to make rank during the war would be the GIs and the men who got no such chance became the Silent.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.