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“What brought Hitler to supreme power within a few months of being appointed Reich Chancellor was a combination of murderous political violence whose ruthlessness was beyond anything imagined by the world of conventional politics in Germany, and a propaganda offensive that violated every standard of truthfulness and decency."
#Hitler #EconomicElites #violence #disinformation #democracy
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~ Richard J. Evans, Hitler’s People: The Faces of the Third Reich (NY: Random House, 2024), p. 100
"The extensive overlap between the aims of the anti-democratic elites, including business leaders and the military, and those of the Nazis, ensured that however the great the distaste of elites for the violence of the Nazis, they were willing to go along with their destruction of democracy.”
#Hitler #EconomicElites #disinformation #propaganda #violence #democracy
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~ Ibid.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/653631/hitlers-people-by-richard-j-evans/
“The Third Reich was one of the most male-supremacist regimes in history, valorizing a concept of hypermasculinity expressed through ‘toughness’ and ‘hardness.'”
~ Ibid., p. 356
#Hitler #ThirdReich #patriarchy #heterosexism #MaleEntitlement #masculinity #men #BroCulture
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@wdlindsy@toad.social“Yet although an extreme and frequently internalized understanding of masculinity lay at the heart of Nazism, the spectrum of perpetrators ranged far beyond the power-crazed, the authoritarian and the brutal. Most Germans who belonged to the educated middle classes, the so-called Bildungsbürgertum, comprising people with university degrees and professional status, welcomed the coming of the Third Reich and collaborated with the Nazi regime to the end."
~ Ibid., p. 358
“The Nazi regime created a framework that encouraged its followers, especially during the war, to commit acts that would have been unimaginable in other circumstances. The regime first dehumanized whole categories of people, including the mentally ill and handicapped, Slavs, Gypsies, petty criminals, the ‘asocial’ and the ‘work-shy,’ and above all, of course, Jews, then placed at the disposal of its followers means of violence normally beyond the reach of most people."
~ Ibid., p. 469
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Uhhh... the 'asocial'? As a weird introverted loner with very few friends this concerns me.
I got a Zyklon allergy.
A(nti-)social.
Basically anyone who disagreed with them, or anyone they didn't like who didn't fit into any of their other Nazi hate boxes.
Ultimately, everyone.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_triangle_(badge)
@ThirteenthWorrier @wdlindsy We should be concerned about the dehumanization of anyone.
@ThirteenthWorrier Evans is quoting Nazi propaganda there.
@wdlindsy Please accept my apology for not treating the topic with sufficient gravity. I have a record of using inappropriate humor in the face of anxiety.
I gathered the quote referenced Nazi propaganda. I was reacting to how unspecific the categories became.
My takeaway was that the Nazi's cooked up categories to justify dehumanizing and exterminating anyone they arbitrarily decided they didn't like.
This suggested to me that all of us are threatened by the current batch of fascists.
@ThirteenthWorrier Those are good points. They were not clear to me in what you said previously. Thanks for clarifying and expanding on them.
“This suggested to me that all of us are threatened by the current batch of fascists.”
Precisely, this is how the fascists do it… they make sure that everyone knows that if you are not sufficiently on-side to be one of them, there’s an out-group category waiting to justify crushing you.
The Nazi regime used dehumanizing motifs to justify slave labor.
German industry had access to low wage & no wage labor for a decade.
It launched several industrial dynasties amongst the moneyed.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Billionaires
American companies too.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_collaboration_with_Nazi_Germany
@Npars01 Yes. Defining people as subhuman was absolutely indispensable to and necessary as a preliminary for what the Nazis did. As Hannah Arendt pointed out, they laid the foundations by voiding everyday language of its meaning and injecting sinister new meaning into words.