*This episode is releasing on April 9, 2023, at dawn, Berlin time. This is in commemoration of the execution of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a man who stood up to the lies and deception of Hitler, and who paid for it with his life. He died at dawn exactly 77 years ago from this moment. I dig into Hitler's "Mein Kampf" to explore the mind of an early master propagandist, and how we might avoid being bewitched by another iteration of him in the future. 

0:00 - Bonhoeffer Introduction
15:00 - Our aversion to reading Hitler
21:45 - How this episode connects with the season
23:30 - Hitler's/Germany's struggle: injustice and imperialism
33:00 - Racial ideology
38:00 - Hitler's moral lens
42:45 - Hitler's grounding of authority
49:00 - Hitler the progressive
51:15 - Why focus on the masses?
53:30 - How to propagandize the masses
59:30 - The elite are disconnected from the masses
1:06:00 - How the elite propagandize the masses like Hitler
1:12:30 - Ellul and Hitler's overlap
1:13:45 - Importance of truth at the core of propaganda
1:16:00 - Importance of polarizing groups and issues
1:20:10 - Mithridatism and saturation
1:20:50 - Vary forms of propaganda
1:21:25 - Propaganda aims at effectiveness
1:22:00 - Concluding thoughts

*Correction to Holmes's quote. It is "three generations of imbeciles is enough," not one generation.