My German mother who was actually living through the Hitler Regime was just talking about this:
(I had to look it up)
Gleichschaltung
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichschal....
Quote:
Gleichschaltung, meaning “coordination”, “making the same”, “bringing into line”, is a Nazi term for the process by which the Nazi regime successively established a system of totalitarian control and tight coordination over all aspects of society. The historian Richard J. Evans translated the term as “forcible-coordination” in his most recent work on Nazi Germany.
Among the goals of this policy were to bring about adherence to a specific doctrine and way of thinking and to control as many aspects of life as possible...
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