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Wikipedia • The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.

Would "hate speech" laws have stopped the Nazis?

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FIRE Senior Fellow and former ACLU President Nadine Strossen discusses what is commonly known as The Weimar Fallacy: The idea that, if only the Weimar Republic in Germany had tamped down on Nazis and anti-Semitic speech, Hitler's rise and the horrors of the Holocaust could have been averted. As the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, Nadine knows just how ugly anti-Semitism can be—but censorship only makes it worse. The truth is, there were many hate speech laws in Weimar Germany, and they were strongly enforced against the Nazis — including Hitler himself. Not only did those hate speech laws help the Nazis gain power, they also helped the Nazis censor anyone who challenged it. #freespeech #hatespeech #ACLU #Holocaust #Hitler ...more
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Would "hate speech" laws have stopped the Nazis?
FIRE Senior Fellow and former ACLU President Nadine Strossen discusses what is commonly known as The Weimar Fallacy: The idea that, if only the Weimar Republic in Germany had tamped down on Nazis and anti-Semitic speech, Hitler's rise and the horrors of the Holocaust could have been averted. As the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, Nadine knows just how ugly anti-Semitism can be—but censorship only makes it worse. The truth is, there were many hate speech laws in Weimar Germany, and they were strongly enforced against the Nazis — including Hitler himself. Not only did those hate speech laws help the Nazis gain power, they also helped the Nazis censor anyone who challenged it. #freespeech #hatespeech #ACLU #Holocaust #Hitler

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