Editor’s Note | As Fascism Looms, A Free Press Must Stand Up

Joseph Goebbels was the Nazi chief propagandist who fanned the flames of hatred for the supposed inferior “untermenschen”—or subhumans.

He led the efforts to remove all Jews and other targeted groups, including anyone considered an “intellectual,” from any position of influence, eventually helped send many to their deaths.

The Nazis controlled all channels of communication, destroying those that criticized them in any way.

Donna Brazile : Nazi Germany was a slow play fertilized by denialism about what was happening in plain view.

She says Hitler 's reign succeeded due to just such propaganda and the animalization of human beings designed to inflame supposedly “ Aryan ” citizens of Germany and then other counties into buying in.

Brazile asks: Do we want an administration that will deputize Americans to guard fellow human beings in camps?.

LZ Granderson : When you think certain people are subhuman animals, history shows that you don't give a damn about the horrors inflicted on the so-called “vermin” you abhor and want gone.

LZ: Too many supposedly superior people are still raised to gleefully believe this is the way to hell.