You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east. … - Adam Hochschild

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Adam Hochschild

You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east. Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony. So people at the time really saw fascism not just as an evil but as an aggressive evil that seemed to be spreading.

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