Welcome to Circa 1945: Breaking the Machine. A podcast of parables about the Holocaust — and what it would take to build a genocide-proof society. Studying the most evil times in history gives us understanding. And understanding is power, and freedom.

Today’s story isn’t a parable in the abstract — it’s something that actually happened to me. It’s about symbols, visibility, propaganda…and blindness.

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