After the horror of the facts of the Third Reich--
A state-sponsored policy of murder
12 million dead
Books, art, history itself, completely destroyed
Come the questions:
How?
Why?
What does it mean?
The political movement called National Socialism, abbreviated for all time to “Nazi,” took advantage of the intersection of
Nationalism
German history of the 1st and 2nd Reichs
The after-effects of the armistice that ended World War I
An unstable economy
Psychology
The habit of obedience
The need for order
The need to belong
Nostalgia for a mythologized past
Long-standing anti-Semitism
Science
Rise of Darwinian thought
The desire to categorize all aspects of human and animal life
Modernism
Industrialism
Secularism
Existentialist fragmentation
Their tools were
Reason & law
Rhetoric
Aesthetics: non-verbal influences on behavior & thought
Fear & intimidation
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