teacher, none of his interviewees was a professional and none had ever been even reasonably financially well off. In addition, Mayer's treatment of the moderately sized Hessian university town of Marburg (depicted in the book as Kronenburg) as representative for all of Germany is questionable. Marburg lacked a significant industrial sector, under Weimar it was more conservative than the rest of the country (providing only limited support to the Social Democrats and virtually none to the Communists), and already by 1932 it was more pro-Nazi than the rest of Germany (handing Hitler 49 percent of its vote versus 33 percent elsewhere in Germany). According to Evans, Mayer failed to press his 'ten little people' as hard as he could have on painful, sensitive points, and his conclusions were influenced by his political views. Despite these observations, Evans describes Mayer’s book as "a timely reminder of how otherwise unremarkable and in many ways reasonable people can be seduced by demagogues and populists, and how they can go along with a regime that commits more and more criminal acts until it plunges itself into war and genocide". References Sources H. Larry Ingle, "Milton Mayer, Quaker Hedgehog," Quaker Theology #8 (Spring-Summer 2003). External links "The Case For the Jew", The Dawn Bible, November, 1943, Internet website , accessed January 9, 2015. A timely response to Mayer's original article. Extract from They Thought They Were Free They Thought They Were Free on Archive.org Robert Maynard Hutchins: A Memoir 1908 births 1986 deaths American columnists 20th-century American educators American Reform Jews American tax resisters American conscientious objectors Jewish American writers University of Chicago faculty Writers from Chicago 20th-century American non-fiction writers People from Carmel-by-the-Sea, California American Quakers Englewood Technical Prep Academy alumni 20th-century Quakers 20th-century American Jews Associated Press reporters