This may be a bigger take-over of the media by Gov than we've ever seen in this country.
It IS familiar, howsomever:
"When the Nazis came to power in 1933, the German constitution guaranteed freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Through decrees and laws, the Nazis abolished these civil rights and destroyed German democracy.
Starting in 1934, it was illegal to criticize the Nazi government. Even telling a joke about Hitler was considered treachery. People in Nazi Germany could not say or write whatever they wanted.
Examples of censorship under the Nazis included:
Closing down or taking over anti-Nazi newspapers;
Controlling what news appeared in newspapers, on the radio, and in newsreels;
Banning and burning books that the Nazis categorized as un-German;
Controlling what soldiers wrote home during World War II.
How did the Nazis use propaganda?"
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encyclopedia.ushmm.org
That book next to Trump's bed stand was a book of 1,000 Hitler Speeches.
"Actually, it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of 'Mein Kampf,' and he's a Jew," Trump told Brenner.
Brenner then asked Marty Davis whether he gave Trump a copy of the book.
"I did give him a book about Hitler,' Davis told her. "But it was 'My New Order,' Hitler's speeches, not 'Mein Kampf.' I thought he would find it interesting. I am his friend, but I'm not Jewish."
Brenner then wrote that Trump told her: "If I had these speeches, and I am not saying that I do, I would never read them."
abcnews.go.com
Just sayin'.
