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Wasn't the insidious thing about Hitler that people actually loved him out of ignorance? My impression is that there was far more surveillance of citizens in C
by redcap 17y ago
Wasn't the insidious thing about Hitler that people actually loved him out of ignorance? My impression is that there was far more surveillance of citizens in Communist East Germany than Nazi Germany.
If you can get people to actually love you rather than fear you, you don't need a surveillance system in every house (or every neighbourhood as the Stasi system was set up).
- ErrantX 17y agoIt's way more complicated than that - but in essence yet. The problem with Hitler was that the propaganda was rock solid (so, yeh, ignorance in the sense of misdirection I guess) and initially he fixed some stuff, or appeared too, that was important to the populace. Of course he then turned out to be insane but by that point (and more precisely the point when the populace started to realize) it was kinda too late.