"Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it" (Hitler). Totalitarianism was exposed in World War II as a system that annihilates any trace of human individuality by indoctrination; this is with the final goal of justifying any atrocity: everything is possible. As Arendt says in her essay of Total Domination, "the fundamental belief [and] () and total domination () is possible only if each and every person can be reduced to a never-changing identity of reactions, so that each of these bundles of reactions can be exchange at random for any other" (124). ...

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