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by funcDropShadow 1919 days ago
> but having went to school there entire years of our history class were dedicated to the Nazis.

To be precise it is about the atrocities committed by the Nazis and how they managed to subvert the society to be able do their crimes. By the way they started early on to change the everyday language.

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"Ministry of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment" - it was candidly named, if nothing else.

> Indeed, Goebbels initially opposed the term propaganda, recognizing that in popular usage, both in Germany and abroad, it was associated with lies. Even after the ministry had been in existence for a year, he proposed changing its name to Ministry of Culture and Public Enlightenment, but Hitler vetoed this proposal.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/ministry-o...