A lot of those “think about what you would be doing as the Nazis come to power” is like, okay, who would I be? Me? What are the important parts? Because I’d be incoherent in Weimar.

Like, am I still the son of a Catholic family? Does that matter?

Does it matter, rather, that I’m an atheist? That I’ve never been in the military? That I went to college with a lot of Jews? Did I do dueling there?

Do I still write? Who publishes me?

My dad was a lawyer for the local school district, is that equivalent to the Prussian civil service? I can trace my ancestry to multiple signers of the Declaration of Independence, does that make me nobility?