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408. The Nazis in Power: Hitler's Dream (Part 5)

The Rest Is History

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Impact of Societal Preaching on Interpretation

Living in a society that preaches the primacy of race can make it extremely difficult to resist the implications of that idea, especially when there is no other permissible way of thinking. The widespread language of race in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, even in non-Nazi environments, fostered the belief in racial struggle and the existence of races. This societal preaching influenced even the educated elites, as noted by Thomas Mann, who saw Hitler as articulating their darkest desires and impulses.

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