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Thomas Mann

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

Thomas Mann

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Thomas Mann is saying that National-Socialism distorts and corrupts ideas that have been part of German thinking for a long time. He suggests that these original ideas were twisted into something harmful and dangerous.

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