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Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part IIIb: The Opposite of Love

Bret Devereaux · 16 Oct 2026

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  1. Our reading

    Terror bombing of civilians has never succeeded in collapsing support for a war

    Their wordsa strategy which did not work then and has never worked since in any war ever, despite repeated attempts.

  2. Our reading

    The regular German military, the Wehrmacht, was fully involved and complicit in Nazi war crimes alongside the SS

    Their wordsthe regular German military, the Wehrmacht was fully involved and complicit in Nazi war crimes, alongside the SS and the rest of the Nazi regime.

  3. Our reading

    Axis atrocities were not collateral damage but deliberate military policy bound up with Axis strategy

    Their wordsThe atrocities could not be seperated from Axis strategy: they were the ways, means and ends, by, with and for which the Axis fought.

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