Question

What did the author mean when she stated,

Answer 1

The author of the comment, Dorothea Schloesser, was herself ½ Jewish in her ethnicity.  She was also an entertainer (a singer), so she would be inclined to notice how dramatic Hitler was and how outlandish the whole Nazi movement at first seemed.  But she and others in Germany were not thinking about how deadly serious this movement and its outcomes could be.  Hitler and the Nazis led Germany into devastating global conflict (World War II) and carried out horrific atrocities against the Jewish people and others (the Holocaust).