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if the Nazis tried to eliminate the influences of American popular culture, which they regarded as an example of cultural degeneracy |
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in case the Nazis, like other authoritarian governments, had used mass media as an efficient means of indoctrination and control |
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that the economic troubles and political turmoil, which had been brought about by World War I, could easily be overcome |
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just as one powerful influence on the artists and intellectuals of the time was neither social nor political, but scientific |
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so that artists might continue to focus on subjective experiences, multiplicities of meaning, and personal expression |