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   William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 05:45:46 JST William Lindsey :toad:

   “What brought Hitler to supreme power within a few months of being appointed Reich Chancellor was a combination of murderous political violence whose ruthlessness was beyond anything imagined by the world of conventional politics in Germany, and a propaganda offensive that violated every standard of truthfulness and decency."

   #Hitler #EconomicElites #violence #disinformation #democracy
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   ~ Richard J. Evans, Hitler’s People: The Faces of the Third Reich (NY: Random House, 2024), p. 100

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     “Yet although an extreme and frequently internalized understanding of masculinity lay at the heart of Nazism, the spectrum of perpetrators ranged far beyond the power-crazed, the authoritarian and the brutal. Most Germans who belonged to the educated middle classes, the so-called Bildungsbürgertum, comprising people with university degrees and professional status, welcomed the coming of the Third Reich and collaborated with the Nazi regime to the end."

     ~ Ibid., p. 358

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     "The extensive overlap between the aims of the anti-democratic elites, including business leaders and the military, and those of the Nazis, ensured that however the great the distaste of elites for the violence of the Nazis, they were willing to go along with their destruction of democracy.”

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     ~ Ibid.

     https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/653631/hitlers-people-by-richard-j-evans/

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     “The Third Reich was one of the most male-supremacist regimes in history, valorizing a concept of hypermasculinity expressed through ‘toughness’ and ‘hardness.'”

     ~ Ibid., p. 356

     #Hitler #ThirdReich #patriarchy #heterosexism #MaleEntitlement #masculinity #men #BroCulture
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     Paul Cantrell repeated this.