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> he said what people wanted to hear after losing WWI In other words, they believed it. It wasn’t a false manipulation.
by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
> he said what people wanted to hear after losing WWI
In other words, they believed it. It wasn’t a false manipulation.
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- PoignardAzur 3y agoThey believed the "stabbed in the back" narrative like the US establishment believed there were weapons of mass destruction in Irak. It was a motivated belief, thoroughly uninformed by rational thought, and maintaining and spreading that belief took no small amount of blatant lies and cynicism.
- bsdpufferfish 3y agoStabbed in the back, doesn't explain why facism was a popular world view across Europe and Japan.