What terrified [totalitarianism observer Victor] Klemperer was the way that this transition [from the small truths of individual discernment and experience to misplaced faith] seemed permanent. Once truth had become oracular rather than factual, evidence was irrelevant. At the end of the war a worker told Klemperer that "understanding is useless, you have to have faith. I believe in the Fuhrer."
-- Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny, p. 68-69
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As [totalitarianism observer Victor] Klemperer noted, the fascist style depends upon "endless repetition," designed to make the fictional plausible and the criminal desirable.
-- Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny, p. 66-67
-- Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny, p. 66-67
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