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Jürgen Hubert (juergen_hubert@mementomori.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 22:22:12 JST Jürgen Hubert

Apropos of nothing, I think it might be worth it for American readers to read up on the "Gleichschaltung" - the legal and less-than-legal processes the #Nazis used to take over all parts of the Weimar Republic once they had taken power and concentrated all decision-making processes in the party leadership.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichschaltung
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  The Nazi term Gleichschaltung (German pronunciation: [ˈɡlaɪçʃaltʊŋ] ) or "coordination" was the process of Nazification by which Adolf Hitler—leader of the Nazi Party in Germany—successively established a system of totalitarian control and coordination over all aspects of German society "from the economy and trade associations to the media, culture and education". Although the Weimar Constitution remained nominally in effect until Germany's surrender following World War II, near total Nazification had been secured by the 1935 resolutions approved during the Nuremberg Rally, when the symbols of the Nazi Party and the state were fused (see Flag of Nazi Germany) and German Jews were deprived of their citizenship (see Nuremberg Laws). The tenets of Gleichschaltung also applied to territories occupied by the Nazis. Terminology Gleichschaltung is a compound word that comes from the German words ...

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