"We continue to circle around the events of 1933 because the rise of the Nazis exposed so many conflicting motivations about political and social behavior. And we are astonished to see people like ourselves in the galleries of the Third Reich.
[..]
The past also lives on because what was supposed to be behind us suddenly appears up ahead on the right.”
––Peter Fritzsche
Excerpt From
Hitler's First Hundred Days
Excerpt From
Hitler's First Hundred Days
Peter Fritzsche
Excerpt From
Hitler's First Hundred Days
Peter Fritzsche
“Fascism represented just one form of the sacralization of politics in which a besieged in-group reaffirmed forgotten virtue and collective justice against dangerous outsiders. The effort to resist registered the extent of fascism’s advance. ”
Excerpt From
Hitler's First Hundred Days
Peter Fritzsche
The execution remains a subject of some controversy, because Brasillach was executed for "intellectual crimes", rather than military or political actions
Just thinking: life after.. trump.. Brasillach, Bannon.. Bessent..
1933: “Today, as during the war, Germany is (alas!) once more the great international star who appears in every newspaper, in every cinema, fascinating the masses with a mixture of fear, incomprehension, and reluctant admiration laced with malicious joy at the trouble we are in. Germany is the great tragic, sinister, and dangerous action figure.”
Just like trump.
Excerpt From
Hitler's First Hundred Days
Peter Fritzsche
Until 1943, Padua painted some of the most famous paintings of German Nazi propaganda art.
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Hitler's First Hundred Days
Peter Fritzsche
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mathias_Padua
#propaganda #propagandaart #authoritarianism #paulPadua #radio #newmedia #1930s #wwii #pastisprologue
“Again and again, the Nazis used the state of emergency to legitimize the dictatorship and create the conditions of the siege they claimed to protect the people from.”
“ “Theater, nothing else,” wrote one incredulous observer. ”
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Hitler's First Hundred Days
Peter Fritzsche
“The decree of the Reich President for the Protection of People and State, known colloquially as the “Reichstag Fire Decree,” made emergency the foundation of dictatorial rule—the state had to intervene in everyday life to protect the German people, to overcome the “crisis” of the republic. ”
Hitler's First Hundred Days
Peter Fritzsche
“There were no longer any compromises, which is what the end of a free civil society meant.”
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Hitler's First Hundred Days
Peter Fritzsche
...Nor did he fully realize what an effective figurehead he was for the Nazis.”
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Hitler's First Hundred Days
Peter Fritzsche
“By 1945 audiences saw through the false sentimentality of “everything great is born in pain.”
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Hitler's First Hundred Days
Peter Fritzsche
Walter Tausk “lived through” some but not all of the Third Reich. The fifty-one-year-old veteran of the war was deported to Kovno on November 25, 1941, and four days later, on arrival, after stripping naked, he was machine-gunned to death. In his Breslau apartment, he left nine suits, two winter coats [..] a suitcase filled with books, and the diary.)
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Hitler's First Hundred Days
Peter Fritzsche
“After Hitler, it will be us.” But the popularity of the Nazis was such that the future kept slipping away, and the pieces the socialists finally did pick up in the late 1940s were destroyed cities and millions murdered.”
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Hitler's First Hundred Days
Peter Fritzsche
uhm, until now: "–never before had a political party so effectively occupied national space.”
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Hitler's First Hundred Days
Peter Fritzsche
Excerpt From
Hitler's First Hundred Days
Peter Fritzsche
Sound familiar? “At the end of the first week of Hitler’s chancellorship, activist Kurt Schumacher [..] mocked the Nazis, who had repeatedly announced that within twenty-four hours of seizing power, “everything would be different”
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Hitler's First Hundred Days
Peter Fritzsche
4. "and, in the words of Zarah Leander’s popular 1942 song “I Know There Will Be a Miracle One Day,” was supposed to come to pass one more time after Germany had begun to lose the war. The common vocabulary is remarkable.”
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Hitler's First Hundred Days
Peter Fritzsche
So much like Trump, never apologize, I'm the only one to fix it.
'The common vocabulary is remarkable.'
“The conspirators were not trying to solve a serious problem, the crisis in governance or finances; they were working hard to reach an ambitious ideological goal—to destroy the republic by any means necessary. It took a long, long time, when Germany was already in ruins, for conservatives to understand that they had made a pact with the devil in 1933.”
Excerpt From
Hitler's First Hundred Days
Peter Fritzsche
#hitlersFirstHundredDays #peterfritzsche #books #pastisprologue #GOP #trump
