Prompt: In his book, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, aut

Prompt:
In his book, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, author Timothy Snyder writes:
“History can familiarize, and it can warn. In the late nineteenth century, just as in the late twentieth century, the expansion of global trade generated expectations of progress… The European history of the twentieth century shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary men can find themselves standing over death pits with guns in their hands. It would serve us well today to understand why.”
Using the White Rose author(s) and others from our syllabus, form a unified response as to why this historical pattern occurred. What would these authors say accounts for this trend in the twentieth century? (Do not use the film in responding to this question.