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In fact, Hitler used his short time in prison to write a book in which he articulated his beliefs very clearly. Released early: @nytimes reported that Mr. Hitler seemed chastened and would be retiring from extreme politics as he returned to Austria. @maggieNYT @TheRickWilson

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Hitler had another enormous takeaway from the failed coup. He realized that he would have to take power by lawful and democratic means which is exactly what he did. It only took six months to kill ALL remnants of German democracy and it was all done LEGALLY. The Nazis

were genius propagandists.They used democracy to kill democracy. Lies, cynicism conspiracies, hate, blame, grievance and a lack of restraint around the application of violence for powers sake were their weapons. They moved in an ooze of self dealing, opportunism and fantastic

corruption. It was hard to tell what was happening in those years. The Moscow Bureau Chief of the @nytimes was a man named Walter Duranty. He was a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter who served as Josef Stalin’s stenographer. He deliberately lied about the systematic Soviet

Campaign of starvation that premeditatedly killed tens of millions of people. It took 70 years for Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger to say that Duranty’s work was “slovenly”and that it “should have been recognized for what it was by his editors and his Pulitzer judges

seven decades ago.” Hope springs eternal as they say in America. The main point is this. The lie always finds it way to the fool and sometimes those people ,historically at least, have been the storytellers. When they have been, whether motivated by glory or money or shaped by

willful blindness, corruption and self interest the end has always yielded a catastrophe. There is always a market for misinformation and gullibility alone doesn’t always explain it.