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Shirer broadcast from Berlin as the rallies filled, then worked through captured German files and Nuremberg testimony to tell the story from beer hall to bunker. A million American households bought it.
Canetti anatomizes the crowd as a natural force, then locates power in the survivor who stands alive among the dead. Every command, he argues, leaves a sting in whoever obeys it.
Mass movements are interchangeable, Hoffer argues: converts join not from conviction but to be rid of themselves. Eisenhower handed the book around, and every new wave of fanaticism sends Americans back to it.