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s aresult, Victor Klemperer could repeatedly “run into” one of Hitler’sReichstag speeches. “I could not get away from it for an hour. Firstfrom an open shop, then in the bank, then from a shop again.”66Radio as well as film turned Nazism into spectacle.
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During the war Klemperer, like so manyother Jews, was forced to move into the drastically smaller quartersof a “Jew house,” which meant that he had to dispose of books andpapers. “[I] am virtually ravaging my past,” he wrote in his di-ary on 21 May 1941. “The principal activity” of the next daywas “burning, burning, burning for hours on end: heaps of letters,manuscripts.
nazis enforced the creation of aryan archives and forced the destruction of jewish ones, creating an imbalance in how much material there was in order to control the historical narrative
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He believed Germans feltthat “it’s just us now” when they lived without Jews. “Just us” alsoexpressed the closed circle in which Germans could see and experi-ence “ourselves” as “we are” and as “we have become.”
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- concept: nationalism
- concept: community
- hitler
- concept: pressure
- concept: conformity
- concept: the new normal
- concept: german future & progress
- propaganda
- concept: historical narrative
- concept: exclusion
- nonsupporter
- concept: belief
- concept: justification
- nazi strategy
- klemperer
- primary source
- jewish perspective
- concept: fear
- antisemitism
- concept: complicity
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