The problem is that everyone writes history in their own manner, and that there are no scales that can fix the precise point at which the remedy of unifying patriotism turns into the lethal poison of rabid nationalism. Weimar Germany blindly poisoned itself.
问题在于，每个人对历史的看法各有不同，也没有尺度可以精确地测量出统一爱国主义的救药会在什么时候变成了致命的狂热民族主义毒药。魏玛德国就是这样轻率地毒害了自己。