FIRE Senior Fellow and former ACLU President Nadine Strossen discusses what is commonly known as The Weimar Fallacy: The idea that, if only the Weimar Republic in Germany had tamped down on Nazis and anti-Semitic speech, Hitler's rise and the horrors of the Holocaust could have been averted.
As the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, Nadine knows just how ugly anti-Semitism can be-but censorship only makes it worse.
The truth is, there were many hate speech laws in Weimar Germany, and they were strongly enforced against the Nazis - including Hitler himself.
Not only did those hate speech laws help the Nazis gain power, they also helped the Nazis censor anyone who challenged it.
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