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''See Also: [[Gleichschaltung]]''

''See Also: [[Gleichschaltung]]''

The notorious example of complete failure of applying the proper confrontation and limits towards someone exhibiting the traits of disturbed character with regard to ''political extremism'' is the attitudes of so-called Western powers towards the gradually increasing aggressive demands of [[Adolf Hitler]].{{#tag:ref|cf.  

The notorious example of complete failure of applying the proper confrontation and limits towards someone exhibiting the traits of disturbed character with regard to ''political extremism'' is the attitudes of so-called Western powers towards the gradually increasing aggressive demands of [[Adolf Hitler]].{{#tag:ref|cf. two references

* ''“The absolute [[pacifist]] is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice, and ideals.”''  [[Alfred North Whitehead |N.A. Whitehead]], February 17, 1938, shortly after the [[Anschluss]] of [[Austria]] by [[Nazi]] [[Germany]].<ref>{{cite book |title= Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead |author=Lucien Price |publisher=David R. Godine |year=2001 |pages=93 |isbn=9781567921298 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=1ONzgBFvGSAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Price+dialogues+of+Alfred+Whitehead&hl=sk&sa=X&ei=mOcaU9afIcXnygOumYCIAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Pacifist&f=false |quote=}}</ref>

* ''“The absolute [[pacifist]] is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice, and ideals.”''  [[Alfred North Whitehead |N.A. Whitehead]], February 17, 1938, shortly after the [[Anschluss]] of [[Austria]] by [[Nazi]] [[Germany]].<ref>{{cite book |title= Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead |author=Lucien Price |publisher=David R. Godine |year=2001 |pages=93 |isbn=9781567921298 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=1ONzgBFvGSAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Price+dialogues+of+Alfred+Whitehead&hl=sk&sa=X&ei=mOcaU9afIcXnygOumYCIAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Pacifist&f=false |quote=}}</ref>

*''First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out--''

*''First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—''

:''Because I was not a Socialist.''

:''Because I was not a Socialist.''

:''Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out--''  

:''Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—''  

:''Because I was not a Trade Unionist.''

:''Because I was not a Trade Unionist.''

:''Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out--''  

:''Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—''  

:''Because I was not a Jew.''

:''Because I was not a Jew.''

:''Then they came for me--and there was no one left to speak for me.''

:''Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.''

:[[Martin Niemöller]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Martin Niemöller: "First They Came For The Socialists..." |publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |url=http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007392 |accessdate=March 8, 2014}}</ref>|group=note}} A few hours before the [[Führer]]’s ultimatum related to territorial claims in [[Sudetenland]] at the expense of [[Czechoslovakia|Czecho-Slovakia]] would have expired, [[Neville Chamberlain]], the Prime Minister of [[Great Britain]], asked Mussolini to "save the peace" by intervening. In his reply, "Herr Hitler" agreed to postpone his mobilization for twenty-four hours and invited Chamberlain to meet in conference at Munich. After Chamberlain brought the news to [[House of Commons (UK)|House of Commons]], the whole house burst into a roar of cheering. Men all round, except few remaining in their benches, were shouting: ''"Get up! Get up! Thank God for the Prime Minister!"'' One man who remained silent and seated—with his head sunk on his shoulders, his whole demeanor depicting something between anger and despair, was [[Winston Churchill]].<ref name="Guinness">{{cite book|first=Os |last=Guinness|editor= Virginia Mooney Withrow|title=When No One Sees: Character and Leadership in an Age of Image|publisher=[http://www.ttf.org/ TheTrinityForum.org]|location=McLean, Virginia|year=2007|pages=73-77|isbn= 1-57683-159-0}}</ref>

:[[Martin Niemöller]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Martin Niemöller: "First They Came For The Socialists..." |publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |url=http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007392 |accessdate=March 8, 2014}}</ref>|group=note}} A few hours before the [[Führer]]’s ultimatum related to territorial claims in [[Sudetenland]] at the expense of [[Czechoslovakia|Czecho-Slovakia]] would have expired, [[Neville Chamberlain]], the Prime Minister of [[Great Britain]], asked Mussolini to "save the peace" by intervening. In his reply, "Herr Hitler" agreed to postpone his mobilization for twenty-four hours and invited Chamberlain to meet in conference at Munich. After Chamberlain brought the news to [[House of Commons (UK)|House of Commons]], the whole house burst into a roar of cheering. Men all round, except few remaining in their benches, were shouting: ''"Get up! Get up! Thank God for the Prime Minister!"'' One man who remained silent and seated—with his head sunk on his shoulders, his whole demeanor depicting something between anger and despair, was [[Winston Churchill]].<ref name="Guinness">{{cite book|first=Os |last=Guinness|editor= Virginia Mooney Withrow|title=When No One Sees: Character and Leadership in an Age of Image|publisher=[http://www.ttf.org/ TheTrinityForum.org]|location=McLean, Virginia|year=2007|pages=73-77|isbn= 1-57683-159-0}}</ref>