[rvdm]

I've been doing the exact same in the last few weeks in the opposite order.

I remember reading these as a young teen and liking the stories, but thinking the concepts were so far from ever being possible.

This was the age where the brutality stories of my grandparents surviving WWII started sinking in.

I was convinced mankind would never ever allow anything to happen again that could lead to what happened in the late 30s.

[infinite8s]

Mankind has a historically short memory (unless stories are elevated to religious levels). Witness the recent Holocaust Remembrance statement from the White House.