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Podcast: New Discourses
Episode: The Nazi Experiment, Vol. 11: Dictatorship by Reichstag Fire
Description: The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 189
An undeniable part of the Nazi Experiment is that it operated a fascist-style dictatorship for its infamous "racialist worldview." It got this dictatorship not just through the election of the Nazi Party and Adolf Hitler but through some rapid changes to the law that were made in the first sixty days of Hitler's role in Germany's Chancellorship. Basic liberties were suspended, the Constitution was overridden, and all governing authority was placed ultimately in the hands of the German government and its new Chancellor. All of this had to be done to respond...