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When truth becomes unclear, power becomes easier to hold. If power is built through people and positions, it is sustained through something even more fundamental: control over information. In the early years of Nazi Germany, the regime did not immediately eliminate all opposing viewpoints. Instead, it worked to systematically reshape how information was produced, distributed, and trusted. Independent journalism was discredited, opposing voices were labeled as enemies, and sta

Silhouetted figures are manipulated by puppet strings, symbolizing control and lack of autonomy. If Day 2 is about the conditions that make these movements possible, Day 3 is about what happens once power begins to take shape. In the early 1930s, Adolf Hitler did not immediately dismantle Germany’s government. Instead, he worked within it—at least at first. After being appointed Chancellor in 1933 by President Paul von Hindenburg, Hitler began consolidating power not by elimi

When people think about authoritarian regimes, they often think about how they end—violence, oppression, and destruction. What is far less discussed is how they begin. In the aftermath of World War I, Germany was not a country primed for extremism in the way we tend to imagine. It was a country in crisis. Citizens were grappling with economic collapse, soaring unemployment, political instability, and a deep sense of national humiliation following the Treaty of Versailles. Acc

Over the next several days, I’m going to walk through something that I don’t think we talk about honestly enough. Not opinions. Not memes. Not headlines. Patterns. Because history doesn’t usually repeat itself in obvious ways. It doesn’t show up with warning labels or announce itself as something dangerous. Most of the time, it looks normal while it’s happening—until it isn’t. And that’s the part people get wrong. When people hear comparisons to something like Nazi Germany, t