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How Did Nazi Propaganda Narrow the Imaginable World? - The 1937 Degenerate Art Exhibition and the Mechanics of Public Compliance | Sleepy Facts About History
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Most of us think we already know what propaganda is: a government tells a lie, repeats it often enough, and people believe it because they have no way to hear anything else. But this picture misses almost everything that makes propaganda actually work as a system. This episode examines the machinery of coordinated propaganda in a dictatorship, looking specifically at the Nazi regime between 1933 and the outbreak of war in 1939. It explores how a government constructs a narrow world by…
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