The Empty Mirror
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Goebbels:
Making our enemies look bad

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was often easier
than making us--

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Hitler:
The perfect Aryan Superman.

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A weak stomach
in the presence of violence.

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Woo!
Heinrich Himmler.

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Didn't anyone notice?
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He was ruthless,
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but not careless.
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And Hitler-loyal.
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Who better to run the SS?
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Art must be plausible.
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lf you wrote a script
about Aryan superiority

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and cast Himmler,
people would laugh,

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walk out of the theatre.
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On the political stage,
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you can do anything.
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Let's put up another reel.
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lmages to blur facts.
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Hitler: ln World War l,
l was a messenger.

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l never killed anyone.
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l am a vegetarian.
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l never eat dead animals.
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l loathe big game hunters--
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a gruesome bloodbath.
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l would not allow smoking
in my presence.

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We discouraged
tobacco consumption.

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l insisted on the humane
treatment of pets

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and farm animals.
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l even issued a decree
regulating the cooking

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of lobsters to minimize
their suffering.

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l reduced chemicals
in fruits and vegetables.

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The SS planted
organic gardens.

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l am not a brutal man
by nature.

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l am not a brutal man
by nature.

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l am not a brutal man
by nature.

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l'm not a brutal man
by nature.

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l am not a brutal man.
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Hitler: Only a charismatic
leader could heal the wounds

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of the great war inflicted on us
by the November criminals.

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Hitler's charisma was
as much created

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by the German masses
as it was

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imposed upon them.
ln peacetime,

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stability and routine
undermine charisma.


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