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The Internet 'Brutopia'

Brian1285 Wrote: Sep 25, 2009 4:23 PM
You're forgetting the aspect of the universality of a radio broadcast, especially back before the invention of television when radio was the only game in town. A Hitler broadcast didn't just enter the home; it was everywhere you went. I t made Hitler seem as if he was in the air you breathe. It made his voice seem like the voice of God.And radio was also helpful to the Hitler type who had a face made for radio. You couldn't see how bizarre his personal aspect was when he spoke which might have alerted many as to what a strange creature he really was.

There must be something about the effect of radio in unifying a nation because the heyday of radio is consistent with some of the most unified, to the point of totalitarian,...

The transformation of Germany in the 1920s and '30s from the nation of Goethe to the nation of Goebbels is a specter that haunts, or should haunt, every nation.

Arguing
with Idiots By Glenn Beck

The triumph of Nazi propaganda in this period is the subject of a remarkable exhibit at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (where I serve on the governing board). Germany in the 1920s was a land of broad literacy and diverse politics, boasting 146 daily newspapers in Berlin alone. Yet in the course of a few years, a fringe party was...

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