How to Make Dissent Disappear - Death of Democracy 19 - Q3 1937

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 authoritarianism. But inside the Reich, the Nazi state is tightening its grip on the last spaces where dissent can still exist. This quarter, the Gestapo arrests Pastor Martin Niemöller and intensifies the attack on the Confessing Church. The regime opens the House of German Art in Munich, then stages the infamous “Degenerate Art” exhibition to mock, vilify, and destroy modernist culture. The SS establishes Buchenwald near Weimar, forcing prisoners to build their own prison. Meanwhile, Göring’s new state industrial empire and the Nuremberg “Rally of Work” reveal a society being reorganized for war. 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. Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TimeGhostHistory Or join the TimeGhost Army directly at: https://timeghost.tv/signup/ Check out our TimeGhost History YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/timeghost Between 2 Wars: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrG5J-K5AYAU1R-HeWSfY2D1jy_sEssNG Follow WW2 Day by Day on Instagram: @ww2_day_by_day Follow TimeGhost History on Instagram: @timeghosthistory Follow our Moderators on Instagram! Spartacus Olsson: https://www.instagram.com/spartacusolsson/ Indiana Neidell: https://www.instagram.com/indy_neidell/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TimeGhostHistory/ Hosted by: Spartacus Olsson Director: Astrid Deinhard Producers: Astrid Deinhard and Spartacus Olsson Executive Producers: Astrid Deinhard, Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson Creative Director: Iryna Dulka Community Management: Anna Deinhard & Tom Aldis Research and writing by: Spartacus Olsson Edited by: Iryna Dulka Artwork by: Spartacus Olsson Sound design by: Marek Kamiński Artwork by: Himanka Kalita Sound design by: Marek Kamiński Colorizations by: Daniel Weiss Source literature list: https://bit.ly/SourcesWW2 Archive footage: https://www.screenocean.com Image sources: National Archives of Norway, Thomas Neumann United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Bundesarchiv Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe Soundtracks from Epidemic Sound: Deepstar - Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen Easy Target - Rannar Sillard Ominous - Philip Ayers Spy Game - Jon Sumner Secret Cargo - Craft Case Collusion - Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen Rivers Run Red - Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen Weapon of Choice - Fabien Tell Mind Reading - Edward Karl Hanson Infiltrator - Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen A TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH.