{"id":103024,"date":"2026-06-14T04:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=103024"},"modified":"2026-06-13T20:16:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T00:16:22","slug":"how-to-make-dissent-disappear-death-of-democracy-19-q3-1937","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/06\/14\/how-to-make-dissent-disappear-death-of-democracy-19-q3-1937\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Make Dissent Disappear &#8211; Death of Democracy 19 &#8211; Q3 1937"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MdYGXSTlUNw?si=Ak8W3fOGcivo3bI8\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>World War Two<\/strong> and <strong>Spartacus Olsson<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 13 Jun 2026<\/p>\n<p>In 1937, Nazi Germany moved from controlling politics to controlling thought itself. Churches, artists, workers, and dissenters all came under attack.<\/p>\n<p>Berlin, September 1937. From the outside, Germany can seem strangely quiet while the rest of the world slides deeper into war, civil conflict, and authoritarianism. But inside the <em>Reich<\/em>, the Nazi state is tightening its grip on the last spaces where dissent can still exist.<\/p>\n<p>This quarter, the <em>Gestapo<\/em> arrests Pastor Martin Niem\u00f6ller and intensifies the attack on the Confessing Church. The regime opens the House of German Art in Munich, then stages the infamous &#8220;Degenerate Art&#8221; exhibition to mock, vilify, and destroy modernist culture. The SS establishes Buchenwald near Weimar, forcing prisoners to build their own prison. Meanwhile, G\u00f6ring&#8217;s new state industrial empire and the Nuremberg &#8220;Rally of Work&#8221; reveal a society being reorganized for war.<\/p>\n<p>This is Step 19 in the death of democracy: when the authoritarian state stops merely silencing opposition and begins fighting the inner freedom to believe, imagine, worship, create, and think.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World War Two and Spartacus Olsson Published 13 Jun 2026 In 1937, Nazi Germany moved from controlling politics to controlling thought itself. Churches, artists, workers, and dissenters all came under attack. Berlin, September 1937. From the outside, Germany can seem strangely quiet while the rest of the world slides deeper into war, civil conflict, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1118,7],"tags":[304,102,360,457,1197,269],"class_list":["post-103024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-germany","category-history","tag-antisemitism","tag-art","tag-christianity","tag-fascism","tag-interwarperiod","tag-propaganda"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qNG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103025,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103024\/revisions\/103025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}