Clickbait title: Nazis hate him! Secrets of propaganda exposed! This took far longer to put together than I'd anticipated. It wasn't even the work itself, it's the emotional load. I eventually had to start chopping out huge planned segments, like looking at modern propaganda like that awful "Surfing in the DPRK" white guy rap video. I'm sorry about the downer ending, but there's no way to spruce it up. To a certain degree we lost. You should seriously read, and then re-read, Umberto Eco's'Ur-Fascism'. It's available online for free. It's not that long. Here, I'll even link it for you. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/ Books mentioned: Urania's Children The Occult Roots of Nazism The Origins of Totalitarianism Written and performed by Dan Olson Twitter: https://twitter.com/FoldableHuman

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1. Triumph of the Will becomes a comedy once you realize that they still fucking lost
2. I don't know if you read your comments, but if I may suggest a subject for another video? I'd really like to hear this same argument placed in the context of trump and perhaps other political parties of the world. or perhaps those are two separate subjects as well. nonetheless I think it's extremely important to remind and put propaganda in the context of today. it's still everywhere, still in our politics, and still harmful to how we vote and make political decisions. I am thinking mainly of my own country, Canada.
   
   too often, I think people like to believe that propaganda ended with the nazis.
3. I just watched your essay for the third time and I noticed how seamlessly and powerfully you've structured your argument. It's a joy to hear complex ideas being expressed so lucidly.
4. you dimmed and used over head lighting like on an interrogation to ensure the that "this is not a typical subject I would choose but you guys talked me into it". You couldn't help yourself but play a little bit Hahahaha.
5. This video sort of downplays the influence the movie actually had (cinematographical speaking), but made a strong point with the last line.
6. Another book to look into is How Hitler Could Have Won WWII. A comprehensive guide to all the points in Hitler's regime where he could have secured victory (or, at later points, a less crushing defeat), and how he squandered those opportunities because of egotism, refusal to take council, deliberate organizational mismanagement, an unhealthy fixation on Russia, the inability to do either the world conquering or the Final Solution (instead of both at the same time), and simply ignorance of what he was doing.
7. Wow, that final message, just...wow. I never really considered that.
8. The ending was spot on. I understand it wasn't the original intent, but I hope at some point you'll look back and agree that the thought provoking impact was worth it. I've been reading about propaganda in the years since art school(where I learned to make it, but they skirted over its purpose). It's hard to find good, concise explanations to point people to in order to really explain propaganda and its potency. It's very hard in my personal experience to convince people that propaganda works. That last detail, for me, is the pivotal element that will make me reshare this to other people as something important. Not just interesting. Important.
9. well, thank god to mel brooks then.
10. You my good sir just earned yourself a subscription.
11. Aren't concepts like weakness, passivity and uncertainty also conditions used for Propaganda when a propagandist tries to make people feel emphasize with specific groups in order to win over people for their interests?
12. The continued normalization of Triumph of the Will and the Hindenburg (whose Nazi roots you rarely see, usually not even showing the swastikas on it is a creepy example of how you can normalize almost anything with the right amount of propaganda and "letting it slide past".
13. I enjoyed the video. It would be great if you did cinematic language of propaganda on recent movies too.
14. "This is the point." why did I laugh so hard?
15. 15:20 The Confessional Church was actually a movement against the Nazi attempt to unify the German Protestant churches.
16. The image I think of when I think of Nazis is that one scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade when Indy shoots through three Nazis with one bullet.
17. What I think is the most scary, is that in school, when learning about Nazi Germany, we still use ALL their terms, the annexation of Austria is der Anschluss, the killing of the SA leadership is still the Röhm-Putsch/ Röhm coup (although Röhm didn't revolt), the Nazis' rise to power is good ol' Nazi language die Machtergreifung, etc. etc.
18. What is most important to note is that relative to any other ideology- national socialism was the only one able to truly follow the ideals to preserve our race and prevent foreign elements from having any power in our nation- all other ideologies fail or even attack this goal.
19. I like how you paused at the end to allow that last sentence to really sink in.
20. Quite recently I started watching Nazi-related videos and films with the current bloodfest happening in my country (The Philippines). I'm starting to see how state-run propaganda happening in this time is one of the worst moments to live through. I lost 2 work collegues, they were shot dead by the police for "suspected" drug dealing, they were just going home from work. My government is firing and arresting politicians who are a "threat" to the state. 7,000 people (including children as young as 6 years old) are murdered by the police for "drugs". The death penalty will be passed, with the age of the criminal to be as young as 9 years old. Me and my friends yell and complain, but the masses praise and prasie our president like a messiah. In their eyes the poor deserves to die because they are worth nothing. Some of my family members agree to the killings even if they know these victims are innocent because its "population control". Poor people dont deserve to live.
    
    We are also experiencing historical revisionism in its most stupid form. 31 years ago MILLIONS of people stormed the streets to oust our President for his abusive dictatorship. Now the current government gave this abusive dictator a state funeral. His family was never tried and still live in luxury. People are now trying to say what happened 30 years ago was a fluke. A lie. 30 years ago my country was liberated from a dictatorship where 10,000 people were missing, tortured, raped, or mutilated. My country LOST SO MUCH MONEY and is still paying for the debt until this day. But people somehow agree that the abusive era of my country was the best and anyone who survived the tortures should move on or are being dramatic.