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- [Voiceover] Reality Films.

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- [Voiceover] In the 1930s an entire nation was brainwashed.

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It was manipulated by masters of propaganda

and the arcane arts.

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The result was the deaths of millions of people.

The world was changed in just a few short years.

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The men behind this massive scheme

were members of the most evil and vile of

political parties ever to have existed.

We know them as the Nazis.

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Their purpose was to bring about the rise

of a so-called Aryan race.

The race that would rule the world

for a thousand years.

This would be the Third Reich.

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In order to see the fulfillment of their grand scheme

they needed to eradicate certain races from the globe

and subjugate others.

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In order to achieve this,

they needed millions of people

to believe and follow them,

and only them.

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And so they created a messiah,

a god on earth, his name was Adolf Hitler

and he would become the master

of manipulating the hearts and souls of man.

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From mass hypnosis to blatant propaganda,

from control of the media to eradicating the opposition,

all methods were employed.

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This is the story of how that incredible goal

was actually brought to fruition

and the methods used to control the minds of men.

This is the story of Nazi propaganda.

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There can be very few people who have not

heard the term Nazi and yet there are very few

who can pinpoint the actual meaning.

Yes it brings to mind terrible atrocities

and evil looking characters from war films.

We all know that it is a word with evil connotations.

Their symbol, the swastika, is banned from public display

in almost all parts of the world.

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But why is this that in living memory,

millions of people followed them.

How did so many people get drawn into

what became quite possibly,

the darkest period in human history?

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In this film we look into the purpose

of the Nazi party, we explore the power

they had over the mind and we examine

their methods of propaganda and hypnosis.

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Who were they?

What did they do?

Why and how?

It's time to get inside the mind of the Nazis,

the monsters of manipulation.

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The actual term Nazi, is the shortened version

of the National Socialist German Workers Party.

The brain child of one particular man,

who rose from the ashes of a poverty

stricken Germany, Adolf Hitler.

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As a youth in Austria, Adolf Hitler

became politically influenced by

radical German Nationalism.

This led him into anti-semitism

as well as hatred for the Slavs, Habsburgs,

Catholics and more.

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It was this time he saw the merits

of absolute party leadership,

the title of Fuhrer and even the greeting of Heil.

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Heil mine Fuhrer, simply meant "Hail my leader."

Later a chant zeig heil was created for public occasions

as the Nazis understood such things

created a harmony among the followers.

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In fact, Adolf Hitler himself, studied hypnotism,

when he read the book, "Psychology of the Masses".

The book describes the psychology of the crowd

and the techniques that could be used to control them.

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Using hypnotic suggestions,

a crowd can be manipulated.

Repetition and the use of movement are key.

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When an animal walking through a wood

sees a movement, it stops and looks.

Its attention has been gained.

If a movement happens again,

then the animal will continue to look,

mesmerized to the spot.

The same applies to us.

Watch as the speaker may walk up and down the stage

keeping our natural gaze.

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Movement of the body and arms

enforce a strength and those watching are fixed.

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In this state, whatever is said by the speaker

has more power.

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Repeat it and it becomes gospel.

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Hitler used repetition, not just in speeches,

but he repeated the speeches.

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A repeated statement becomes embedded in the mind.

Hymns in church are sung for this very reason,

to drive home the propaganda and message of the church.

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HItler himself said, "What you say to the people

"collectively, in that receptive state

"of fanatical abandonment,

"remains in their mind like an order

"given to someone under hypnosis,

"which can not be wiped out

"and resists all logical argument."

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He used all the techniques known.

Pacing up and down, pause and action.

Repetition and hand movements for reinforcement.

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Through such hypnosis, Hitler could bypass

rationality and logic

and aim straight into the core of the mind,

without the conscious knowledge of the viewer.

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Repeated viewing of the same speaker

has been proven to reinforce a concept

of admiration and even of holiness.

Eventually, every word uttered becomes holy writ.

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He was also instructed in the art of hypnosis,

by an expert.

A British Secret Service report from 1943,

stated "During the early 1920s,

"Hitler took regular lessons in speaking

"and in mass psychology from a man

"named Hamsun, who was also a practicing

"astrologer and fortune teller."

He was an extremely clever individual

who taught Hitler a great deal

concerning the importance of staging meetings

to obtain the greatest dramatic effect.

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What Hitler was really good at

was the power of suggestion,

repeating a phrase.

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Over time, Hitler's beliefs changed and grew.

His experience as a corporal in the first world war

saw him eventually blame the leaders of Germany

for the loss of the war and the subsequent

humiliation of the Treaty of Versailles.

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He also blamed the Jews.

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He learned everything he could.

He gathered information.

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What his intentions were originally is unknown,

but he molded himself with his knowledge

and he was intent on doing something

about the plight of the German speaking world.

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Over time, and following hundreds of speeches,

arguments, political maneuvering

and outright bullying, Hitler found his destiny

as the leader of the Nazi Party.

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So what was Nazi Germany?

Between 1933 and 1945,

the term was interchangeable with the Third Reich,

a period when the country was controlled

by Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist

German Workers Party.

Or Nazi Party.

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Under Hitler's reign, Germany changed into

a fascist totalitarian state, whereby almost

all facets of life were controlled by the government.

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The very moment Hitler took power as Chancellor in 1933,

all political opponents were eliminated.

In 1934, the President, Hindenburg, died

and Hitler became Dictator.

His title was Fuhrer, or leader.

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All power was in his hands and his word

was above the law.

Gathering around Hitler were the various factions

all trying desperately to attract his attention

and gain his favor.

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Nothing was beyond them in their fight

for the Fuhrer's love.

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It had been a time of desperation

and poverty was rife under the Nazis,

the economy grew and stabilized.

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Massive public works were undertaken.

Germany was being rebuilt

and with it the spirit of the master race.

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The Nazis enjoyed massive popularity

through this economic stability

and this allowed them to begin introducing

some of the more sinister elements of their policies.

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They had done what they said they would do,

so they must be right, was the public perception.

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Education was targeted, introducing

the concepts of racial purity into the schools.

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The children were being prepared on many levels.

Firstly, they were being aligned

to the beliefs of the Fuhrer.

Secondly, the boys were prepared for military service

and the girls softened up for motherhood.

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Opportunities for females were reduced,

so they could concentrate on being good German mothers.

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Through the Strength for Joy program,

recreation was organized,

and in 1936, Germany held the Olympics,

placing the might of the Third Reich,

in the international spotlight.

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All media and public gatherings were controlled.

Propaganda was everywhere.

Even art was controlled.

As the power of Germany grew against

the backdrop of a weak Europe,

the aggression of the Nazis began to terrify many.

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- [Voiceover] If I Adolf Hitler,

can set the clout of the German nation

to the head of war without the smallest ticking

for spilling precious German blood.

Then surely I have the right to remove

millions of an inferior race that breeds like vermin.

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- [Voiceover] When they made territorial

demands in Czechoslovakia, Europe buckled.

Russia and Italy aligned themselves with the Nazis,

Poland was invaded and war was declared in 1939.

- [Voiceover] This is murder.

Deliberate murder.

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- [Voiceover] By 1940, Germany controlled most of Europe.

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- [Voiceover] Defying every written

and unwritten law of man,

not only premeditated, but carried out

by official decree.

- [Voiceover] Only Great Britain remained

and until 1942, the Americans stood back.

- [Voiceover] Here in utmost secrecy,

the hardening up forces.

Building up Hitler's army and his industry.

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- [Voiceover] Tell the world we have no raw materials,

and never let them see what goes on.

Day after day, night after night,

month after month, year after year,

we must have the world's most powerful club.

Forget hours, forget working conditions,

forget how to think, forge the club of blood and iron.

Let the democracies talk about freedom.

No freedom here.

No labor unions.

No overtime.

The Fuhrer tells you where to work.

When to work, how long to work.

How much your work is worth.

Forge the club of blood and iron.

We have a sacred mission.

Today we rule Germany.

Tomorrow, the world.

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- [Voiceover] And for those who don't like it,

you don't eat.

Or you disappear into a concentration camp.

Or you get this.

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And this is the man who gives it to you.

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And what of the army?

Before Hitler came into power,

the German Army by treaty was limited

to one hundred thousand men,

but treaties to the Germans have always

been something to ignore.

These one hundred thousand men

were in reality a hundred thousand

highly trained officers.

The men who lead the Nazi regiments today.

But Hitler didn't merely ignore the treaty,

he tore it up.

And in 1935 ordered National Conscription.

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Simultaneously, he ordered German youth

to become air minded.

Toy gliders filled the air.

But as the boys grew bigger,

so did the gliders.

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Soon these same youths were trained pilots,

flying the new planes the factories were producing.

The Luftwaffe was being assembled.

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The only thing old about this new army,

was the goose step.

And even Hitler couldn't improve

on that ancient German form of torture,

designed to make man stop thinking

and blindly obey.

Goose step them until they become

as insensible as weapons.

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Everything else was new.

Tanks, motorized equipment

and one of our own inventions,

the dive bomber.

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All this rearmament was strictly illegal,

according to the Versailles Treaty

and the next illegal step Hitler took,

was to march his troops into the Rhineland,

a strip of land between Germany and France,

demilitarized after the last war

as a precaution against future German aggression,

but Hitler's plan of eastern conquest

demanded a barrier against democratic

action in the west.

So Hitler re-militarized the Rhineland

and began building the formidable Siegfried line,

a chain of forts and defenses 450 miles long

and in some places, 30 miles wide.

Germany had fought one two front war

and didn't want another.

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As many as half a million men,

worked as much as 20 hours a day

to build 22,000 fortified positions on land,

where by treaty no German soldier

was supposed to set foot.

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- [Voiceover] The Nazis were truly

beginning to believe in their own propaganda,

that they were destined to rule the world.

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Most scholars see the Nazi Party as the far right,

but what does this mean?

They argued through neo-Darwinism,

that what they called the Aryan race,

was superior and had the right to rule all others.

Hitler himself claimed that Nazism,

was neither left nor right, and he attacked

both communism and capitalism as pawns of the Jews.

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He said the Nazis were not for any class of people,

but the pure from both sides.

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The Nazi's held the Weimar Republic,

the old system of government

in Germany in contempt.

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It was they who had brought about

the signing of the Treaty of Versailles

and the humiliation of Germany.

After World War I, the German right wing nationalists,

known as the Free Corp, engaged in political violence

and the Nazis were intrigued and inspired by their methods.

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- [Voiceover] The symbols and the leaders change,

but Germany's maniacal urge to impose

its will on others continues from generation to generation.

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- [Voiceover] The monarchists of post-war Germany

were being threatened by the young generations

who wanted to create a new state,

based on martial rule.

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The Nazis formed an alliance with

several other parties and industrialists

and began to grow in power.

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Hitler's hypnotic speeches helped

to secure him as the leader.

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Following the 1932 elections,

the alliance broke off.

Kaiser Wilhelm the Second,

was under pressure and abdicated.

His four sons became members of the Nazi Party.

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Hitler's top team was forming with Goering,

Himmler and Goebbels among them.

In 1933, the party finally gained power.

Hitler had played the political game.

He had coerced and cajoled and he succeeded.

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Promises and pressure, carrot and stick,

Nazism was about German Nationalism,

about pride and expansion.

Taking back what was rightfully theirs.

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Millions of people who had suffered

at the hands of the Treaty of Versailles

and the Great Depression, were now

promised jobs, holidays and more.

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Those who argued were punished.

The German people were the superior race.

It was a myth built around the concept

of the Aryan master race

and it fed into the Nationalistic swelling of pride

filling the huge void.

It was time to take back the lung that was stolen.

Time to show the world that Germans

were a force to be reckoned with.

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So just what did the Nazi Party

finally end up believing in?

Just what kind of country had they created?

How did the people live with it?

Were they happy?

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If you were female in Nazi Germany,

then you were excluded from political office.

The term children, kitchen, church

was often applied for the good German lady.

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Women were ordered to avoid sexual relations

with foreigners in order to avoid

having the pure German blood soiled.

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Himmler said, "Fellow Germans who engage

"in sexual relations with male or female

"civil workers of the Polish nationality,

"commit other immoral acts,

"or engage in love affairs,

"shall be arrested immediately."

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Heydrich later declared that Russian males

would suffer the death penalty for such an act.

The women would have their heads shaved,

be paraded in public or even sent to concentration camps.

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The method of getting the message across to women

began early with the League of the German Girls.

Nazi Nationalism was all about the German way of life,

the German bloodline, the special Aryan race,

therefore others who lived in the Nazi realm

were second rate citizens or worse.

And with the dogma of expansionism,

many more millions would soon

find themselves in similar situations.

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The terror and horror of the Nazi Aryan elitism

spreading across Europe was unbearable.

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Aryan's, Nazis said, were in conflict with all

other races for superiority.

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A set of race laws were introduced in 1935,

which became known as the Nuremberg Laws.

In the beginning, these laws simply

outlawed sexual relations and marriage

between Germans and Jews,

but it was then extended to include

Gypsies and Negroes.

In the war, it was extended further,

to include all other races.

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The Nazis drive was to maintain racial purity

and so they went about the systematic

extermination of Jews, Romanies and the mentally ill

and the physically disabled.

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Others, were called degenerates.

People such as homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses,

blacks and of course, anybody who didn't agree.

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Another one of Hitler's grand schemes,

was to exterminate or enslave the Slavs

of Central and Eastern Europe,

such as the Russians, Poles, and Ukrainians.

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This, he said, would make way for German settlers.

The Slavs were to Hitler, a mass

of born slaves awaiting their master.

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One of the tactics to purify the race,

was compulsory sterilization.

Or even involuntary euthanasia of the disabled.

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He used the tales of Sparta to back his views,

who destroyed all congenitally deformed infants

to maintain racial purity.

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By 1933, the law of the prevention

of hereditarily diseased offspring

included the sterilization of people

with schizophrenia, epilepsy

and a whole range of conditions,

including alcoholics.

Between 1933 and 1939,

360,000 people were sterilized.

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Today, arguments about what an Aryan was or is still rage.

But to the Nazis, true Aryans were

from the Nordic lines, the Mediterranean,

Dinarics, Alpine and East Baltic regions.

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Nordics were the highest on the list.

Jews, were to them, a mixed race of people

from outside of that scope and had no right

to live in Europe.

The term anti-Semite is not strictly true,

because other Semites who were not Jewish,

did not suffer the same abuse.

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The man behind the propaganda machine

of Nazi Germany was Joseph Goebbels.

He said, "The Jew is the enemy

"and destroyer of the purity of blood.

"The conscious destroyer of our race.

"Us socialists, we are opponents of the Jews,

"because we see in the Hebrews,

"the incarnation of capitalism,

"of the misuse of the nations goods."

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Goebbels became the Minister of Enlightenment

and he had two main tasks.

Firstly, to ensure that nobody

could read or see anything against the Nazi Party.

Secondly to make sure the views of the party

were marketed in as persuasive a manner as possible.

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He worked with both the S.S. and Gestapo to make his point,

along with Albert Speer, he hunted out anything

that was opposed to the party line

and presented public displays of propaganda.

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He set up the Reich Chamber of Commerce,

which dealt with literature, arts,

radio, music, newspapers and film.

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In order to work in these fields,

you had to be a Reich Chamber member.

Anybody outside the Chamber was banned from publishing.

How was it that a whole nation

followed such insanity?

The answers are actually relatively simple.

For decades, the Germans had suffered intense poverty,

high unemployment, starvation, disease

and death were commonplace.

On top of this, was a national shame

placed upon them by the international community,

for World War I.

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They had lost land, welfare and prestige.

Along comes a political solution

that promises to save the nation on every level.

A savior rises in the form of one man

who can spell bind the poor and desperate peasants.

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The blame is placed elsewhere.

The people are called "Chosen Ones", "Special", "Superior".

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It is a trick used over the millennia

and will no doubt be used again.

In small ways it is utilized in every political campaign.

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Year after year this goes on,

and the crowds grow ever larger.

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In the streets, the S.A. offered a hard stick

to those who argued.

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Eventually a tipping point arrives,

where the few have become the majority

and the rest must follow like sheep.

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Through fear of being swept up

in the crashing wave, leaders always like to have

somebody else to blame, it keeps the public

gaze in another direction, other than at them.

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Hitler and his Nazis used everybody

that was of no use to their plan.

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The Jews had been a long standing target,

even before Hitler had ever thought of it.

Ever since they arrived in Europe,

their stay had been troubled.

It was therefore no great new message

the Nazis were delivering,

instead, they simply reinforced the message

and brought it up to date.

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Much of what we see today as horrible,

does, in fact, have a certain amount of logic,

but that's where it says, as logic of madness.

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Sterilizing mentally ill patients, or worse,

removed a cost burden on society.

Enslaving entire races brought a ready workforce

to arm, cloth and feed the pure Aryans.

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Because there appears to be a logical sense to such things,

it becomes something that can be stated

and re-stated.

Doing so reinforces the message

and allows additions.

Nobody argues with additions,

when they have shamed themselves

into agreeing in the first place.

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Once crowds of people are convinced,

it is a simple process of nature that follows.

We all want to sing the same hymn,

to be in harmony with those around us,

to march with our brothers and sisters,

to feel part of something.

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But what better to feel part of than something powerful.

Everybody wants to be accepted,

and to be accepted meant joining in.

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Add into the mix, incredible iconography.

Learning from the religions,

and empires of the past, the genius

of the Nazi Party and its propaganda machine,

was to emulate the very best bits.

The power and might of Rome was stolen and used.

The zeal of the religious was copied.

The strength of classical buildings was recreated.

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The people started to get jobs,

to feel part of a community

and to look around them and see

the images of what they were being

told they were, a master race.

Drip, drip, this sunk in.

Slowly, the crowds grew in numbers.

A master race born to lead.

Born to enslave.

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Forgotten was the fact that Jews,

Poles and homosexuals were humans too.

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Along with the many methods of positive reinforcement,

came the negative side.

Destroy opposition, book burnings,

banishments, and concentrations camps

for politically outspoken activists.

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Once done it became a self creating device.

People followed the lead and in their own districts,

did the same.

The purging of Germany was in full swing.

Nazi Party politics was the new way of the world

and the savior was nothing less than a god himself,

Heil Fuhrer.

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As part of this, Hitler did not go down

the path of social divide within his Aryan race concept.

He rejected the Marxist idea of an international

class draw against the rich and royal.

The Nazi Party, was really a party

of the middle classes, who had suffered

badly during the depression,

and wanted their status back.

For the lower classes, Hitler provided

food and shelter and recruited them

into his "Brown Shirt Brigade", or S.A. Storm Detachment.

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Every class was welcomed in some form,

as long as they were racially pure.

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A singular aid to the Nazis aims was religion.

Hitler bent it according to his desires.

Germany, has always had a distinct

pagan history and tradition

and mixing myths was no problem.

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Freedom of religion was guaranteed in the 1920

Nazi Party Program,

Positive Christianity was endorsed,

to oppose the Jewish materialistic spirit.

Theologians were brought in aboard,

to ensure that the party message

was incorporated into the

German Positive Christianity Movement.

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Get the people in their pockets,

stomachs, hearts and spirit and you've got them for life.

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Jesus was not a Jew they stated,

but a good Aryan and Adolf Hitler was the new messiah.

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The Jewish Old Testament was denounced

as Satan's Bible.

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The Catholic Church had opposed the Nazis,

and so they were outlawed,

unless they declared lauder to the state.

Many elements of the Catholic Church,

were stolen for Nazi propaganda.

The Catholic Order of the Teutonic Knights

and the Knights Rallies of the Nazis

which mirrored the Catholic mass are two examples.

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Eventually, the two sides signed a deal

and peace between them was found.

It was a necessary evil for Hitler.

To join forces with the Italians.

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There cannot be any doubt,

that the certain amount of occult influence

existed within the higher levels of the Nazi Party.

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Rosenberg and Himmler were Neo-Pagan

and the S.S. certainly went down the road

toward the Holy Grail.

Myth and mystery are an aura created

in the main to attract.

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Lightly hide a secret and people

will want to be a part of it.

It is a very clever device and one used by others,

such as the Freemasons.

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To be allowed entry and to be part of a secret

makes an individual feel special.

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Being part of the Nazi movement as a whole,

was to be part of something big,

old and iconic.

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Others who claimed to have spiritual secrets were outlawed.

Freemasons included.

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One of the prime things that any

political party needs to come to grips with

is the economy.

Hitler had little interest in economics

and so left the running to others.

He did believe that private ownership

should be encouraged for technical

innovation and growth.

If the private company did not

meet the goals of the party,

then it would be nationalized.

Under the Nazi regime,

free competition reduced, but Hitler

and his Darwinian approach allowed a certain amount.

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The selling of land by farmers

was prohibited to enable agriculture to grow.

A marketing board was set up to control production

and prices in a great many areas.

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In the propaganda arena,

the German worker was held in high esteem.

They were honored by the state,

giving the positive reinforcement

to the working mindset in creating a loyalty to the regime.

Songs were written that praised the

good German workers,

and Hitler called them "Patriots"

who were building Germany's

industrial might.

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There were good social welfare policies,

and volunteers were mobilized to aid

the impoverished, as long as they were of the racially pure.

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The National Socialist People's Welfare Charity,

would become the largest civilian organization in Germany.

Putting people into work,

reducing the effects of poverty.

Bringing social classes together,

giving people hope and constantly

reinforcing all of this and more,

through news reels, music,

newspapers and radio fostered the feel good factor.

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Germans were swelling in pride

and the economy naturally grew from the effort.

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It was not capitalism that Germany was under.

Indeed, the very word was hated by the Nazis.

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They argued that capitalism damaged a nation,

because of the international finance

that was needed to grow the system.

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This left a nation open wide to external

control from big businesses and the Jews.

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As one propaganda poster stated,

"The maintenance of a rotten industrial system,

"has nothing to do with Nationalism.

"I can love Germany, and hate capitalism."

If a nation was to be strong,

then it would be strong without the aid

of international capitalism.

It was a method that sought only profit

and that was not loyal to the national interests.

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Hitler said, "We are socialists,

"we are enemies of today's capitalistic,

"economic system.

"For the exploitation of the economically weak,

"with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation

"of a human being according to wealth and property,

"instead of responsibility and performance.

"And we are determined to destroy this system,

"under all conditions."

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It was a Jewish creation, he said,

and had run its course.

The ruling elite of the previous Weimar Republic,

were, according to Hitler, "cowardly shits."

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Hitler believed that territories with

valuable resources should be taken by force

for the good of the nation.

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Having direct control over such lands,

was the only method of economic security.

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One of the main strengths of the Nazi Party,

was the use of propaganda.

It was utilized from day one,

and grew in scope and imagination over time.

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It is, in fact, a study in itself,

but crucial to understanding how millions

of normal people were hooked

into the party line.

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In his book, "Mein Kampf", Adolf Hitler,

devoted three chapters to the subject.

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In fact, the book itself was a powerful

propaganda tool and furnished Hitler

with an income of a millionaire.

He never actually drew on his income as the Fuhrer.

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It was in the first world war, that Hitler had learned

the power of propaganda when, he claims,

he was exposed to the excellent British

and the poor German versions.

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Germany, he said, lost the war because

of poor propaganda.

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None of this was true.

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Hitler stated that propaganda must

address itself to the masses

and be presented in popular form.

It was not to be above the heads

of the ordinary people

and must appeal to the imagination,

to the emotions and hearts of the crowd.

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This crowd was made up of human children

who moved from one idea to the next.

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They must be told what to think.

They are ruled by sentiment and not logic

and so good propaganda must be simple

and play on sentiment.

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Good propaganda, he said, does not give

objective opinions, it gives the one

truth of the party line.

The people were feeble minded,

and quickly forget.

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So the message must be reinforced,

again and again.

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Keep the message simple, sentimental

and repeat in until the very last person

has come to grips with the message.

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The one message must be repeated

and illustrated in different ways,

to attract the majority.

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The daily newspaper of the Nazi Party,

would become a prime method of using these tactics

and Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels,

would take on the role.

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In the beginning, it had been Hitler

speaking again and again at public meetings,

but as the power of the party grew,

more and more media outlets were used.

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In the run up to the war, the propaganda machine

established the so-called facts of external aggression.

They used the Treaty of Versailles as the lynchpin.

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They also picked on the international threats

of Jews, Romanies, Bolsheviks, and homosexuals.

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All of this is nothing new.

All governments prefer their people

to worry about others, because it stops

them worrying about the government.

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Hatred against the Jews,

instead of hatred against the politicians.

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It is also useful to hang negatives on these areas.

Calling the Jews bad workers had two elements.

Firstly, it blamed them for any negative

economic impacts and secondly,

it introduced a feeling of guilt

for those who were not working hard.

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A good German, is a hard working German.

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Lies were created and spread.

Jews need the blood of a Christian child

was one such lie.

Jews kidnap children was another.

The lies were reinforced with imagery,

making the Jew ugly and evil.

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As Hitler himself had said,

It's credibility does not matter.

The victor would not be asked

whether he told the truth.

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Strong visual imagery, bold and direct statements,

sentimental evocations, stirring nationalism,

targeted hatred, lies and repetition,

all worked together and in unity

with the improving economy

and sense of collective superiority.

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All of these things have been used before,

and will be used again.

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In small parts, they still are by all nations.

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Should the right circumstances rise again,

then it is quite possible the Nazi method

will rise again.

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During the war propaganda was used extensively,

the might of the German Army,

the prowess of its soldiers, the strength

of industry were all positively reinforced.

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On the negative side, the enemy came under fire.

Allied bombers were shown as cowards

who bombed civilians.

Americans were portrayed as gangsters.

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Germany was imagined as the sole

defender of Western Europe,

against the Bolshevik hordes.

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In 1944, the Red Cross were invited

to visit concentration camps,

to dispel rumors of the final solution.

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The event was used as a propaganda tool,

and yet the actual camp was, in fact,

transit camp, where Jews lived in relative comfort.

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Afterwards, most of the cast,

and even the film maker himself,

were deported to Auschwitz, where they were murdered.

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The Nazis used every means at their disposal.

Newspapers were always controlled,

both in Germany and captured territories.

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Public speaking was a very large part, as was radio.

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Films were very popular, with such classics

as the 1935 "Triumph of the World", being seen by millions.

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A great many books were written and published,

with textbooks being aligned to the party belief system.

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Control of the paper supply, allowed the Nazis

to control what was and what was not printed.

Books by Jews were banned.

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In addition to all of this, there were

comics for the children and magazines

in various genres.

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Radios were made at a limited range

and allowed only local transmissions.

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70% of the German population had these sets

and so, 70% were subject to party propaganda,

on a daily basis.

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Goebbels himself said,

that it would not have been possible

to take power without the use of the radio.

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Nazi propaganda demonized the enemy,

whether Britain, America, Jew or homosexual.

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It positively reinforced the messages of the party,

the values of being a good German.

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The heroic dead and great leaders

were constantly pushed across as ideals.

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Pride in the master race, in the messiah

that was Adolf Hitler

and in the goal of annexing German speaking lands.

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There would be only one victor, Nazi Germany,

and to win, it meant total war.

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Time and again, history throws up

unique individuals, Napoleon, Caesar,

Alexander the Great, Muhammad, Jesus,

Genghis Khan, Stalin and of course, Adolf Hitler.

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In each period there are different circumstances,

but there are also similar ones.

It begins with a disappointed mass.

People who feel they have suffered enough.

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They look around for a savior,

for one who will show the way

and have the bravery to stand up for them.

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People are like sheep, they like to follow,

they want to follow.

Very few want to lead.

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When the leaders have finished

fighting between themselves for power,

the strongest emerges in a truly

Darwinian way.

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"This must be the chosen one!" people cry.

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They are predisposed to listen

to his words and counsel, after all,

it was they who sought him out.

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He begins by making sense,

by agreeing with the masses,

by telling them how they have been

abused for too long.

The crowd rejoices.

They like what they hear.

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He then shows them why they have been suffering,

who and what is to blame.

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It's the Romans, it's the royals, it's the Jews.

It doesn't matter who, as long as there's

a seed of truth in it somewhere.

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That seed is grown slowly,

and evidence is found or created.

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The anger of the mob turns towards

those taking the blame.

"But what do we do?" shouts the crowd.

The messiah responds.

"Come to me, we will take back

"what is rightfully ours.

"The Holy Land, the Grail, the power."

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Drip, drip, the propaganda builds up

the concepts of a chosen people,

and a hatred towards the enemy.

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A tipping point emerges, when all

must follow the leader.

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At this point there is no stopping the movement.

It is now a massive organic machine.

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If it is a religion, then it may continue for millennia.

If it is nationalism, then it will eventually

fall as all empires do.

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Could it happen again?

The question is simply answered, yes,

and it will.

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Society and civilizations repeat history

again and again and have done so for thousands of years.

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We create the circumstances,

on a cyclical basis.

Rise and fall, riches and poverty,

financial growth and ultimate crash.

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Once we are in the time of crash, beware,

for the masses become hungry and angry.

Right wing and nationalistic fascism rise.

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Before the second world war,

a great many such groups emerged,

not just in Nazi Germany,

but across the globe.

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Unless the crash is quickly turned around,

then somebody, somewhere, may just get

an idea in his head.

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He may just start to come out into the public gaze

and he may just be able to utilize

his power of mesmerism upon them.

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Adolf Hitler learned well.

He understood the mind of the crowd.

He practiced the art of the hypnotic speech.

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He had his finger on the pulse of the people.

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He was a man of his time.

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Is there another Adolf Hitler out there now?

Is he waiting in the wings, unaware of his destiny?

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And what will we do?

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