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The Michael Shermer Show · 2026-04-21 · 85 min · 14,117 words

Not Monsters. Not Madmen. Just Men.

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It is a weakness not to be able to stand the side of dead people. The best way of overcoming it is to do it more often, then it becomes a habit. That's how to turn your population into killers. How did this happen? How do you get these highly educated, intelligent, cultured people like the Germans the home of, you know, of Goethe?

I mean, come on, Beethoven, wow. And then turn them into goosed up stepping Nazis in a matter of a few years. How does that happen? Is there something in the people themselves? Or is it the environment?

Is it the culture? What is it? And all the assassination attempts on Hitler's life mostly failed, just barely. Even the July 20 bomb plot. Had the table not been there to block the energy from the blast?

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