to divert the attention of the populace from the ignominy of defeat in the World War. Jew-baiting gives temporary employment to all the unemployed young hoodlums in the country.
Fearful lest Jew-baiting pall on the populace, Hitler and Co. clumsily fire the Reichstag to make a scapegoat out of the Communists. Himself a homosexual, one of the first acts of the Reichskanzler is to burn the books of Magnus Hirschfeld (who may have known too much) and exile him from the country.
Freud, too, whose teachings would point uncomfortably to the psychosexual infantilism of the man who governs Germany’s destinies, was also treated to a literary auto-da-fe. And Germany’s womanhood, which bore the brunt of the War, has been nearly put back five centuries by a legislative castration unparalleled in history. Heil Hitler!
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