• Maxxie@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      TL-DR:

      He gifted medal to Goebbels because he was a huge fan and wanted an audience with Hitler, one he got and kinda blew.

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      The Negros are and will remain Negros, a nascent human form from the tropics, rudimentary organs on the body of white society. Instead of founding an intellectual elite, America has established a mulatto studfarm.

      Yowza

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        Today’s nazi wannabe fascists are equally horrible in their opinions, and their grammar is much worse.

      • Horrific racism aside, if their goal was actually foundation of an intellectual elite or some kind of utopian master society, they wouldn’t defund education, science, art. Their goal has only ever been power and control.

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          They’re not mutually exclusive. Look at the U.S. today; defund the public programmes that make this accessible to everyone and restrict it to the rich elite that can pay for it.

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      Reminder that the Nordics were actually quite excited about racial science and purity. Here in Sweden we pretended to be neutral, while experimenting on native populations (all the Nordics did this) and giving full access to the Nazis to use our railroads and resources to invade Norway.

      Let’s see, the most recent overturn of a eugenics law here in Sweden was… uhmm, let’s see what does the records say. Oh right, it was in 2013, before which trans people were forced to get sterilised if they wanted their gender recognised.

      We love to pat ourselves on the back and claim that we’re all progressive and egalitarian, but it’s a bold faced lie.

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    My favorite tidbit about this:

    Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun gave his Nobel Literature Prize medal to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels in 1943. A strong supporter of the Nazis, Hamsun was convicted of treason in 1947 and spent the rest of his life in mental institutions.

    Source: 1001 ways to lose a Nobel prize

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      He was an absolute master of propaganda. The best / worst we’ve ever seen to the best of my knowledge. Evil genius doesn’t even scratch the surface.

      All the way through the 1920’s and 30’s he masterfully moved public opinion in Germany, shutting down the free press, hosting the Olympics while convincing the West that Germany just wanted peace, nudging the populous towards war, the works.

      Edit: thankfully for us all he recorded it in diaries that survived. He was a true believer. Hitler would never have achieved what he did without Goebbels. Others played pivotal roles but fuck me that pair were something.

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          He was inner circle but wasn’t nearly as public facing until half way through the war then did a massive and very successful rationalisation on their war machine that was too late. The allies were massively out producing them by then and there was no catching up. Not sure how much design work he did though.

          Goebbels was the public mouthpiece from the offset.