Until 1943, Padua painted some of the most famous paintings of German Nazi propaganda art.

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Hitler's First Hundred Days
Peter Fritzsche

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mathias_Padua

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Paul Mathias Padua - Wikipedia

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.'

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“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
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Déjàvu. This all seems so–familiar, right? Like, we've done this all before. But, that can't be. Can it? It can't happen here, right?..

Judgment at Nuremberg, 1961. Richard Widmark as prosecutor Col. Tad Lawson; directed and produced by Stanley Kramer, and written by Abby Mann.

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“In 1838, concerned that mob violence imperiled the nation’s fledgling democratic institutions, Lincoln predicted that the gravest “danger” to democracy was never going to originate overseas but “must spring up amongst us.… If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher.”

Birchers
Matthew Dallek

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“Constitutionalists were entitled to rule, and either they were going to work within the system to achieve their vision of “constitutional government,” or, if the ballot failed them, they were going to take up arms. By 1974, some members identified violence as the only solution to the ills plaguing the United States.

Birchers
Matthew Dallek

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“If liberals were to build the world they wanted—a world where pluralism trumped hate, science trounced unreason, and democracy conquered fascism—they had to fight harder.”

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“The fact is clear, you can’t talk with a Bircher,” [..] The typical Bircher “is so aggressive in defense of the card he carries that he seems to lose sight of country and human dignity. So the best way to beat him is at the polls. Every time he raises his paranoid head, we will be there after him. Sometimes we will win, sometimes we will lose. But, he will know that we are watching.” #birchers #dallek #bookstodon #rightwing #extremism #Republicans #history #pastisprologue
“Birchers’ use of conspiracy theories to tar their foes as anti-American was native to the United States, too, as was their contempt for multiracial democracy.”
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Wow, whack jobs: “In response to a query from a member in North Carolina, for example, the [John Birch Society] research department in Belmont explained that Franklin Roosevelt, rather than Japan, had “triggered the attack upon Pearl Harbor.”

Birchers
Matthew Dallek
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