re: Thought it deserved its own thread: History photos (colored pre-war Nazi photos)

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Watched a story on Goebbels/his diaries on Netflix recently & he is rated as the most intelligent Nazi in Hitler's inner circle. He noted that the intelligence level amongst the average German in that day was not very high. One reason the Nazis targeted the intelligentsia in both Germany & the occupied countries was to remove the potential for intelligent discourse when discussing the Nazis.As well, Himmler was an ardent anti Christian, pushing instead for pagan beliefs & rituals. All designed to appeal to the masses. Stalin was the same way in ruling Russia. He was always purging the intelligentsia there. Which makes for the Nazi doctors' actions in the camps even that more despicable; they were far & away highly intelligent Nazis.

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As far as I remember all those that were being tried at the Nuremberg trials were highly intelligent.

From Wikipedia

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Intelligence tests and psychiatric assessments[edit]
The Rorschach test was administered to the defendants, along with the Thematic Apperception Test and a German adaptation of the Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Test.[37] All were above average intelligence, several considerably.[38]


The defendants in the dock

Defendants listening to translated evidence through headphones
Name I.Q.
Doenitz, Karl 138
Frank, Hans 130
Frick, Wilhelm 124
Fritzsche, Hans 130
Funk, Walther 124
Göring, Hermann 138
Hess, Rudolf 120
Jodl, Alfred 127
Kaltenbrunner, Ernst 113
Keitel, Wilhelm 129
Neurath, Konstantin von 125
Papen, Franz von 134
Raeder, Erich 134
Ribbentrop, Joachim von 129
Rosenberg, Alfred 127
Sauckel, Fritz 118
Schacht, Hjalmar 143
Schirach, Baldur von 130
Seyss-Inquart, Arthur 141
Speer, Albert 128
Streicher, Julius 106

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