No one pressed Grzimek to join the SA, nor did anyone force him to write his articles for the virulently anti-semitic, Der Angriff (The Attack), the newspaper run by Nazi chief propagandist, Joseph Goebbels. It’s inconceivable that Grzimek wouldn’t have read the paper he wrote for. Like many Germans he would also have read Hitler’s 1925 political autobiography, Mein Kampf. The Nazis made no attempt to hide their racist ideology: on the contrary, they were keen to broadcast it as widely as possible. Many Germans disagreed with them but Grzimek clearly knew exactly what the Nazis stood for: he was one himself. More
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