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This breaks my heart even more when I think about how difficult it still is today for people to come to this country and the journeys (both legally and illegally) people are forced to take and the pain they are leaving behind (extreme poverty, war...etc).

If you really want your heart broken, read What Is the What. And then think about the fact that Valentino Achak Deng is actually incredibly fortunate compared to many people from his country and around the world.

I don't believe the Frank letters are authentic. I mean, of all the millions of people who died or perished without a trace in WWII, how is it that letters from Anne Frank's father just happened to survive via a clerical error 65 years ago?

There seems no end to undiscovered artifacts tied to famous people. I mean, does ever a year go by that some tabloid TV show doesn't screen yet more never-before-seen footage of Marilyn Monroe or Elvis Presley?

By the way, a speaking of "Little Man, What Now?" it was adapted by Hollywood in the early 1930s. See:
http://www.reverseshot.com/article/little_man_what_now

ECB,
Wonderful post. Ron Heifetz, who wrote Leadership Without Easy Answers, talks a lot about Germany and the US during this period and how people, under duress, seek strong, simple leadership. Like Hitler, or even FDR. He has a great quote where Eleanor Roosevelt was worried that the loudest applaud in FDR inaugural address was that at times he might need to expand his power temporarily to save the US. (I am probably a bit off in specifics, but the idea is the same)

The trouble's largely economic, a major part of the solution is economic. Roosevelt himself put the kibosh on these "emergency currencies" that popped up both in Europe and the States during the depression. "Mutual interest", and 'stamp scrip', etc. Jus' sayin'...