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Jeff Swensen
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Professional geneticist and amateur desert rat. Slava Ukraini!
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"Hitler's... was the first dictatorship in the present period of modern technical development...Through technical devices such as radio and loudspeakers, 80 million people were deprived of independent thought." - Albert Speer, a Nazi official during the #NurembergTrials.

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March 20, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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"People were arrested and taken into protective custody, who had not yet committed any crime, but who could be expected to do so if they remained free."

- Hermann Göring, one of the leading Nazi politicians, explains "protective custody" in the Third Reich during the #NurembergTrials

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March 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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"I believed that I, as a simple citizen, did not have the right to criticize the measures of the State, particularly not at a time in which our country..was engaged in a struggle for life and death"
-Fritz Fischer, a Nazi physician, who experimented on camp inmates, during the #NurembergTrials

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March 20, 2025 at 1:24 PM