I wonder why that is. My late father feld Hitler in 1936 when the Gestapo came for him, and he also built a successful life. But the populations were smaller, resoruces were more plentiful, success was easier. And strangely enough, lines were drawn more strictly. One was not forced to greet strangers.

In my childhood, it would be the greatest rudeness to ask someone you did not know "How are you?"