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German playwright, Bertolt Brecht, writes in one of his immortal tunes that "magic fear puts the world at your command." Writing, as he did, in Germany during and after WWII, Brecht knew something of fear. He knew also how fear was used to manipulate people into doing things that they would not normally consider doing at all. The Nazis made effective use of propaganda to make people afraid of the Jews and were thus able to gain their permission -- and at times full cooperation -- in the extermination of more than eight million human beings.