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History has centered on Hitler's use of charisma and terror, asserting that the dictator made few concessions to keep up electric power. Nathan Stoltzfus, the award-winning writer of Resistance of Heart: Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Germany, challenges this notion, examining the surprisingly repeated tactical compromises Hitler manufactured in order to preempt hostility and win the German people's complete fealty. As part of his strategy to secure a "1,000-year Reich", Hitler looked for to influence the German people to have confidence in Nazism so they might perpetuate it completely and positively shun those who had been out of step with modern culture. When widespread people dissent took place at home - which most often happened when policies conflicted with popular practices or encroached on private life - Hitler made careful computations and acted strategically to keep up his popular image. Increasing from the 1920s to the regime's collapse, this revealing background makes a powerful and original discussion that will motivate a significant rethinking of Hitler's rule.
