In other words, he “improved” on the idea idea of anti-semitism: he made it something inherent, fundamental, something they were born with, like a club foot. Wow, I hadn’t seen that before and still don’t want to read Mein Kampf. I visited Dachau as a teenager in the late 1980s and found that to be too powerful an experience for me. A profound silence emanated from houses and grounds that still haunts me.
But what’s interesting about repeating false claims 4 times, or more than four times, is that Adolf started in 1925 and continued to repeat his false yet powerful claim of inherent racism until he effectively won the election, and then burned down Congress (the Bundestag) and then kept repeating it, until he effectively eliminating elections.

It does remind me of, I have to say it, Trump, who repeated the birtherism false claim of Obama for years until he started running. He too “improved” on racism against black. He was really saying that Obama was from Africa, was not just black but African black, that he didn’t belong or deserve to be president because he was African. He pointed to an inherent feature that he—and by extension blacks—were lesser and from another continent, one he later said was full of “sh*thole” countries. He found new and novel ways of repeating it. Repeating false claims is powerful, because once one’s followers started following, they too are “forced” to defend the falseness of the false claims, lest they look like idiots for not believing them or being called “disloyal” for pointing out the falseness, or lack of evidence. And they are easy to claim as enemy turncoats when they speak the truth to the dear leader (Mo, Barr, etc.).

Let us also be reminded that Trump was a copy cat of this tactic in recent American history. It was the Californian Ronald Reagan who repeated the false claim of the “welfare queen” and amped it up nationally starting in his bid for presidency in 1976. Like Trump, he lost his first bid, but kept up the claim like Trump until he won. Sure, Ronald Reagan was different, he was a screen actor who was people said was a master at media manipulation (oh no wait, sorry, that makes him the same). But he was a “better” speaker (for whatever that’s worth in the promotion of racism).
Interesting how false claims are such a powerful tactic for promoting group division, racism and making true believers adhere to the group by sticking by false facts. It does remind me of the “Nazi” false claim Putin made to start the current war, and the camps he set up in Russia and how he stripped ordinary Ukrainians of the passports and documents that were captured in southwest Ukraine and shipped them to the “concentration camps” in Russia for…? (According to credible reporting I’ve read and researching more about).
Fortunately he doesn’t have to burn down the Duma since the opposition is already dead or repressed.
Steal the vote, anyone?
Thanks much for the great insight, and (unfortunately) the powerful picture.