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  1. “The 1932 presidential election offered the Nazis the chance to assume power legally since, as president of the republic, Hitler would be able to govern by emergency decree.”

    Excerpt From
    Hitler's First Hundred Days
    Peter Fritzsche

    #hitlersFirstHundredDays #peterfritzsche #fascism

  2. "We continue to circle around the events of 1933 because the rise of the Nazis exposed so many conflicting motivations about political and social behavior. And we are astonished to see people like ourselves in the galleries of the Third Reich.
    [..]
    The past also lives on because what was supposed to be behind us suddenly appears up ahead on the right.”
    ––Peter Fritzsche

    Excerpt From
    Hitler's First Hundred Days

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  3. “Fascism represented just one form of the sacralization of politics in which a besieged in-group reaffirmed forgotten virtue and collective justice against dangerous outsiders. The effort to resist registered the extent of fascism’s advance. ”

    Excerpt From
    Hitler's First Hundred Days
    Peter Fritzsche

    #hitlersFirstHundredDays #peterFritzsche #books #fascism

  4. The execution remains a subject of some controversy, because Brasillach was executed for "intellectual crimes", rather than military or political actions

    Just thinking: life after.. trump.. Brasillach, Bannon.. Bessent..

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_B

    #hitlersFirstHundredDays #peterFritzsche #books #robertBrasillach #fascism #collaborationism #france #wwii

  5. 1933: “Today, as during the war, Germany is (alas!) once more the great international star who appears in every newspaper, in every cinema, fascinating the masses with a mixture of fear, incomprehension, and reluctant admiration laced with malicious joy at the trouble we are in. Germany is the great tragic, sinister, and dangerous action figure.”

    Just like trump.

    Excerpt From
    Hitler's First Hundred Days
    Peter Fritzsche

    #hitlersFirstHundredDays #peterfritzsche #books

  6. “Again and again, the Nazis used the state of emergency to legitimize the dictatorship and create the conditions of the siege they claimed to protect the people from.”

    “ “Theater, nothing else,” wrote one incredulous observer. ”

    Excerpt From
    Hitler's First Hundred Days
    Peter Fritzsche

    #hitlersFirstHundredDays #peterfritzsche #books #totalitarianism

  7. “The decree of the Reich President for the Protection of People and State, known colloquially as the “Reichstag Fire Decree,” made emergency the foundation of dictatorial rule—the state had to intervene in everyday life to protect the German people, to overcome the “crisis” of the republic. ”

    Hitler's First Hundred Days
    Peter Fritzsche

    #hitlersFirstHundredDays #peterfritzsche #books

  8. “There were no longer any compromises, which is what the end of a free civil society meant.”

    Excerpt From
    Hitler's First Hundred Days
    Peter Fritzsche

    #hitlersFirstHundredDays #peterfritzsche #books #bookstodon

  9. ...Nor did he fully realize what an effective figurehead he was for the Nazis.”

    Excerpt From
    Hitler's First Hundred Days
    Peter Fritzsche

    #hitlersFirstHundredDays #peterFritzsche #books #gayleking #katyperry

  10. “By 1945 audiences saw through the false sentimentality of “everything great is born in pain.”

    Excerpt From
    Hitler's First Hundred Days
    Peter Fritzsche

    #hitlersFirstHundredDays #peterFritzsche #Books #history

  11. Walter Tausk “lived through” some but not all of the Third Reich. The fifty-one-year-old veteran of the war was deported to Kovno on November 25, 1941, and four days later, on arrival, after stripping naked, he was machine-gunned to death. In his Breslau apartment, he left nine suits, two winter coats [..] a suitcase filled with books, and the diary.)

    Excerpt From
    Hitler's First Hundred Days
    Peter Fritzsche

    #hitlersFirstHundredDays #peterfritzsche #Books #history #bookstodon

  12. “After Hitler, it will be us.” But the popularity of the Nazis was such that the future kept slipping away, and the pieces the socialists finally did pick up in the late 1940s were destroyed cities and millions murdered.”

    Excerpt From
    Hitler's First Hundred Days
    Peter Fritzsche

    #hitlersfirsthundreddays #peterFritzsche #books #trumpsFirstHundredDays

  13. uhm, until now: "–never before had a political party so effectively occupied national space.”

    Excerpt From
    Hitler's First Hundred Days
    Peter Fritzsche

    #hitlersfirsthundreddays #peterFritzsche #books #trumpsFirstHundredDays

  14. Sound familiar? “At the end of the first week of Hitler’s chancellorship, activist Kurt Schumacher [..] mocked the Nazis, who had repeatedly announced that within twenty-four hours of seizing power, “everything would be different”

    Excerpt From
    Hitler's First Hundred Days
    Peter Fritzsche

    #hitlersfirsthundreddays #peterFritzsche #books #trumpsFirstHundredDays

  15. 4. "and, in the words of Zarah Leander’s popular 1942 song “I Know There Will Be a Miracle One Day,” was supposed to come to pass one more time after Germany had begun to lose the war. The common vocabulary is remarkable.”

    Excerpt From
    Hitler's First Hundred Days
    Peter Fritzsche

    So much like Trump, never apologize, I'm the only one to fix it.

    'The common vocabulary is remarkable.'

    #hitlersFirstHundredDays #peterfritzsche #books #pastisprologue #GOP #trump

  16. “The conspirators were not trying to solve a serious problem, the crisis in governance or finances; they were working hard to reach an ambitious ideological goal—to destroy the republic by any means necessary. It took a long, long time, when Germany was already in ruins, for conservatives to understand that they had made a pact with the devil in 1933.”

    Excerpt From
    Hitler's First Hundred Days
    Peter Fritzsche
    #hitlersFirstHundredDays #peterfritzsche #books #pastisprologue #GOP #trump

  17. 1932: “As the numbers of extremists grew, life seemed to diminish. “What was no longer to be found [..] was pleasure in life, amiability, fun, understanding, goodwill, generosity, and a sense of humor.”

    Excerpt From
    Hitler's First Hundred Days
    Peter Fritzsche
    p. 45 One

    #fascism #maga #learnfromthepast #hitlersFirstHundredDays #peterFritzsche #wwii #history #1930s #books #bookstodon

  18. “When Chancellor Heinrich Brüning’s government declared a long bank holiday on July 13, 1931, after a run on the banks following the collapse of the Darmstädter and Nationalbank, the economic crisis began to hit home. There was a “9% salary reduction” for civil servants [..] and higher value-added taxes for consumers"

    Excerpt From
    Hitler's First Hundred Days
    Peter Fritzsche

    #fascism #maga #learnfromthepast #hitlersFirstHundredDays #peterFritzsche #wwii #history #1930s #books #bookstodon

  19. “Do you remember,[..]that Döblin* said that time is a butcher and that all of us are running away from the butcher’s knife? Well that’s me, and that’s all of us. You too. I’ll run until I fall. But until I fall, I want to live.”

    *novelist Alfred Döblin, 1929 novel 'Berlin Alexanderplatz'

    Excerpt From
    Hitler's First Hundred Days
    Peter Fritzsche

    #fascism #maga #learnfromthepast #hitlersFirstHundredDays #peterFritzsche #wwii #history #berlin #1930s

  20. Isn't this interesting. During Hitler's rise 'the price of eggs'..“People bitch like lunatics but are Nazis nonetheless.” In this case, the sounds of hostility were not reliable indicators.”

    Excerpt From
    Hitler's First Hundred Days
    Peter Fritzsche

    #fascism #maga #learnfromthepast #hitlersFirstHundredDays #peterFritzsche #wwii #history