the people doing the research 2 years ago think about what's happening now.

They're laughing up their sleeves, when normal people treat them like they're normal, act politely and civilized toward them.

They just get encouraged, like a small yapping dog does when a large person walks away from them.

fighting back against Hitler and his supporters and telling them they are only making it worse for themselves. That is exactly what they are telling Democrats, liberals, minorities, immigrants, gays, women, etc. today. Exactly.

Posted by Matt Giles

... perhaps the strangest Times article was, “Herr Hitler at Home in the Clouds.” Written by Hedwig Mauer Simpson, the wife of Stanley Simpson, a British journalist and Munich-based correspondent for the New York Times and Times of London (she was a frequent contributor to the The Associated Press and The Daily Mail) — he would be the first to report on the Dachau concentration camp, a piece that was ultimately turned down by the Times of London). A journalistic power couple within Munich, the Simpsons were among the first reporters to have early access to Hitler, and she was known for her ability to file several stories at once and under intense pressure.

In the article, Simpson rehashes worn troupes about Hitler’s vegetarianism, the long walks he enjoyed with his Alsatian dogs, and his love of the German people. The tick-tock of his daily routine is described down to the minute. Breakfast is at 9 am, lunch is served by “white uniformed butlers,” and dinner is promptly at 8 p.m., with the ladies of the Berghof in evening dress and Hitler in English tweeds. In a rare step back from the festivities, Simpson writes that the setting contains “all the elements of exacting bureaucracy and secret-police efficiency.”

The Times article was published on August 20, 1939, 11 days before Hitler’s invasion of Poland. Simpson would take one of the last peacetime trains out of Munich to London, and it appears she gave up writing following her departure from Germany. There is nothing in the article that suggests the chancellor, who “no makes no secret of being fond of chocolate,” has anything on his mind except the promise of an afternoon nap. Simpson clearly feels pampered and privileged to be in his presence. Whatever she felt on that last train out of Germany isn’t recorded here ...

https://longreads.com/2017/11/30/when-newspapers-cover-the-private-lives-of-nazis/