We saw the book’s overwhelming theme as betrayal at every level.  Those in power achieved this through terror, thuggery, surveillance and radicalisation.  Doctors were associated, not with healing, but with torture.  Germans remained ignorant of the Final Solution, and would not have believed it anyway.  We asked how those in the know could have accepted it, and concluded it was because its victims were dehumanised.

What would it be like to live in a police state?  This led to a discussion about freedom of speech, especially with the advent of social media.  We saw problems arose with the far left woke culture of de-platforming, cancelling and statue smashing; as much as that of the Proud Boys, White Supremacists, QAnon and holocaust deniers on the far right.  In both cases the violent attacking of democratic institutions is essentially fascist. 

Finally, we posed the really worrying question: do the lies, lack of trust and trolling on social media spell the end of democracy?