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WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

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The Power of Intellectual Orthodoxy in Germany

The power of intellectual orthodoxy and the authority that lies behind it from the academic is highly, highly respected in Germany. Goebbels invents two types of idioms for the newspapers: decent hard-working, silent majority family whose instincts will no longer tolerate being insulted by Jewish intellectuals who prey on them. The second thing he does is what I call it, it's the raw high whiplash of contempt. And both those idioms sort of outraged loathing and the decent, the decent, that I will speak on your behalf. These people think they can carry on insulting you, and they think you're too stupid to know. Well, that ends here. I'm drawing a

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