Who Goes Nazi?
Gaslit Nation
Gaslit Nation
4.7 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Today is Andrea's birthday. Gaslit Nation is celebrating the only way we know how: by re-reading Dorothy Thompson's 1941 essay, "Who Goes Nazi?", on how to tell who among you at your next dinner party would become a Nazi if given the chance. How does she know? She met these types during the Nazi takeover of her beloved Austria and Germany, hotbeds of intellectual thought and progressive movements, including for LGBTQ and women's rights, before traditional conversatives and business elites put an end to all that by joining forces with a fringe death cult led by a narcissist conspiracy theorist.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Gaslit Nation's quick reminder that today is May 11th, my birthday. |
| 0:10.0 | So that means we are having a first time ever script reading featuring the voice talents of Gaslit Nation listeners at our salon today at 4 p.m. Eastern. If you'd like to join us there, |
| 0:23.2 | come to patreon.com forward slash gaslet. That's patreon.com forward slash gaslet. The Zoom link is |
| 0:30.0 | already posted there. So you can join and you can sign up for a discounted annual membership. |
| 0:39.0 | And you can give the gift of membership. |
| 0:44.9 | Your support of our Patreon keeps our voice out in the world saying what needs to be said and the support of independent journalists like Gaslit Nation has never been more urgent. |
| 0:51.9 | And just as a reminder of that, I want to celebrate my birthday by reading, once again, |
| 0:57.7 | Who Goes Nazi? The 1941 essay by the journalist Dorothy Thompson for Harper's Bazaar. It went viral |
| 1:07.2 | when Trump first came to power. And the whole concept of who goes Nazi. |
| 1:12.2 | Now, I have to stress, Dorothy Thompson was one of the most prolific, prophetic |
| 1:16.9 | journalists of her day. |
| 1:19.3 | She was among one of the first American journalists to interview Hitler. |
| 1:23.1 | She was kicked out of Germany when Hitler came to power as dictator because he never |
| 1:27.1 | forgot the book and the article he wrote about, she wrote about him, mocking him, calling him rightfully a little man, pathetic, flabby little man. |
| 1:36.7 | And he had an entire unit in the Gestapo dedicated to tracking what she was writing about him. |
| 1:43.5 | And even though she was kicked out of Germany, |
| 1:46.3 | and she watched her beloved Austria, Germany, fall to the Nazis. |
| 1:51.5 | Keep in mind, Germany and Austria at the time were intellectual hotbeds. |
| 1:55.4 | They were laboratories of progressive values, workers' movements, union union movements were building what they believe were |
| 2:05.2 | utopia on earth. They were creating a culture of care of people-funded schools and |
| 2:12.4 | medical treatments and so on. And then you had LGBT-plus rights and women's rights, the whole Flapper |
| 2:19.0 | movement. Germany and Austria were the intellectual, cultural, progressive hotbeds of the world, |
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