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Again and again, Bonhoeffer substitutes conventionalised melodrama for difficult history.
An international schoolboy exchange program was used by the Nazis to favorably influence public opinion of the Third Reich. One tool they used: student exchanges with American prep schools.
The US faces many of the same problems Germans faced after World War II: how to reject, punish and delegitimize the enemies of democracy. There are lessons in how Germany handled that challenge.
An in-depth study has shown that far from recruiting from the lower middle classes, the Nazi party attracted many people from high-status backgrounds.
Under an authoritarian government, freedoms can come at a steep – and lasting – price.
The Nazi fuhrer’s story about his ‘resurrection’ in 1918 is an important lesson for today.
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