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GeorgeGist

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Reply to moondust (Reply #5)

Sat Feb 27, 2021, 05:53 PM

Feb 2021

To say that Hitler understood the value of language would be an enormous understatement. Propaganda played a significant role in his rise to power. To that end, he paid lip service to the tenets suggested by a name like National Socialist German Workers’ Party, but his primary—indeed, sole—focus was on achieving power whatever the cost and advancing his racist, anti-Semitic agenda.

https://www.britannica.com/story/were-the-nazis-socialists

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