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So it's consensus on the fact that the idea of "Hitler saved the German economy" only occurred because of rapid rearmament - the intent being to invade on two fronts in order to invade the entire continent.

Total war was intended from the very beginning.

Seems that the old-guard of conservative university professors managed to bypass the excesses of Nazi ideology in the humanities, but it's not as if these are the professors who embraced anti-nationalism - quite the opposite in fact.

But overall, I'd say that the students were more radically right and fanatical than the professors.

There is no doubt that the Nazis *wanted* a collective society, something which was preached in my high school education to mean that the Nazi shared "leftist" elements. That's b/c "leftist" = "collectivist" when in reality, leftism preaches, in various methods, action against HIERARCHY! The Nazis were obsessed with hierarchy, abolishing any other group which strayed from their system based on race and power.

If one compares the Hitler Youth/'alternative' education system in Nazi Germany as akin to military indoctrination (a key of 'classical' fascism) then I think modern-day Russia has far more elements of 'classical' fascism than the United States.

There's a niche idea that the Nazis prosecuted Christians. That's mostly false.
Christian thought leaders A.K.A priests/pastors who openly spoke against the Nazis on the basis of religion were prosecuted, but Christians, as a group, were not targeted by the Nazis like Jews or even "ideological enemies" such as Communists and Social Democrats.
Hardline Christians were seen as sheep to be converted - not prosecuted.

Catholic CSA was already being talked about in the 1930s, but it's obvious that the Nazis motivation on reporting on it was purely due to their hatred of the fact that Catholic clergy, unlike Protestants, are not as susceptible to the disease which is (ethnic) nationalism.

It's a shame that Catholic voters were largely just as oblivious as their Protestant counterparts.

The excellence of Evans' prose and navigation of this book is realized when you notice that throughout this chapter you've unknowingly been following the life of the man who wrote the "First they came for the..." poem until it's "revealed" at the very end.

And even then, Evans hits you skilfully over the head because he reminds you of the absence of one group in that poem: Catholics.

It is clear that Evans does not agree with the phrase '[all] art is political'.

"Nazism anaesthetized politics; but it also politicized the arts."

Yet isn't that the crux of politics and the truth behind art?

This was something which Goebbels understood on an intellectual level. So far, he seems to have been the only truly intelligent member of the Nazi regime.