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It's well known that the judiciary at the time was very lenient towards right wing extremists. His time in jail was rather cozy and gave him time to develop and write down more of his ideological underpinnings. And come up with a more comprehensive plan for taking over.

That's why I find it very worrisome when people like Donald Trump get what amounts to a slap on the wrist for staging an insurrection. Not just that but they actually put him on the ballot again 😱. And this time the people propping him up in the background came up with an elaborate plan for claiming the election and then completely restructuring the executive authoritarian style (aka Project 2025).

This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Average NYT article

Did any of you even check to see if it's real?

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nyt-1924-hitler-tamed-by-prison/

(it is, but you didn't know that!)

It takes a lot of mindlessness from the mindless masses to go from

reactionary extremist

to

Chancellor of the Third Reich

and the utter destruction of many countries. Which is where these right-wing tendencies stampede straight towards.

We can't even begin to fathom what Europe would look like today if republicans instead of Democrats were at the helm in Washington, as the Marshall Plan surely would NOT have happened.

We need a fediverse equivalent of /r100yearago for this stuff

Did Susan Collins write that article?

Well obviously his time in prison was the result of a political witchhunt orquestrated by the radical left /s

“….tamed by prison” yeah hehehe

Hitlers cannot be tamed.

They are ironically the only subject for whom the only solution is The Final one..

Lock him up!

As a prison abolitionist, I am very sceptical about things like this. Sure, for this Hilter guy it worked and I'm glad it did, still on a whole, more people get radicalized than de-radicalized in prison.

Most prisoners are there for property crimes and the "bad guys" who really hurt people, aren't helped or bettered either. We aren't free until all of us are free. Don't let positive examples like this one cloud your judgment on an overall bad institution like the prison complex. Transformative justice is a much better solution, also for people like this.

Would they have been able to find that he wrote a racist manifesto in prison? It seems like there was evidence at the time that the headline is wrong.

Propaganda even in a democratic and liberal country exist then and still to this day. I just remembered that the character of Charles Foster Kane from "Citizen Kane" film, is himself a commentary on the power and influence that the media has on the minds of the people.

"People will think what I tell them to think!"

The quote is relevant then and just as relevant now.

That being said, I definitely notice from the conditioning on the public particularly when it comes to immigration and class issues. In my country, the far-right reared its ugly head. A lot of it has been fueled by resentment with competition with migrants from the lack of housing, as the result of decade long apprehension to building social housing and ideological austerity. However, the mainstream media shies away from outright mentioning the root cause. Social media and news outlets still relegate those who became attracted to the far-right as "fringe", "loud minority", "uneducated", "scumbags" or "riff raffs". Those terms have underlying classism and is thinly-veiled insult to the working class. But even if some folks try to acknowledge the real root cause, even they still stop short of clearly saying that housing shortage is the major problem but rather use the manicured phrase "those with genuine concerns". And politicians in my country tend to say that phrase rather than admitting "housing crisis is the root cause", because many politicians are landlords themselves.

jk rowling tamed by twitter

What's with that copyright? Was it everywhere at that time?

As seen in Snope's screenshot, other short stories follow the same formula: header, (c) by times, (author) for times, and then text. I suppose it's been done so you can't cut off these without leaving a text without a header. But how it helps anything? Or that's how everyone (used to) did it?

Absurd article by NYT.

According to this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Hall_Putsch#Trial_and_prison it was not really a prison.
He got five years but got out after some eight months. During that time he also dictated his Mein Kampf book to Hess and another of his allies. See also the photo in that article of a "cozy" meeting in the "prison".

The lay judges were fanatically pro-Nazi and had to be dissuaded by the presiding Judge, Georg Neithardt, from acquitting Hitler outright.[42] Hitler and Hess were both sentenced to five years in Festungshaft [de] ('fortress confinement') for treason. Festungshaft was the mildest of the three types of jail sentence available in German law at the time; it excluded forced labour, provided reasonably comfortable cells, and allowed the prisoner to receive visitors almost daily for many hours. This was the customary sentence for those whom the judge believed to have had honourable but misguided motives, and it did not carry the stigma of a sentence of Gefängnis (common prison) or Zuchthaus (disciplinary prison). In the end, Hitler served just over eight months of this sentence before his early release for good behaviour.[43] Prison officials allegedly wanted to give Hitler deaf guards, to prevent him from persuading them to free him.[28]

@freezing cold takes