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• The Reich Ministry of the Interior restricts the freedom of movement of Jews.• The Reich Ministry of Education expels all Jewish children from public schools.• The Reich Ministry of the Interior invalidates all German passports held by Jews. Jews must surrender their old passports, which will become valid only after the letter “J” has been stamped on them.• The Decree on the Exclusion of Jews from German Economic Life closes all Jewish-owned businesses.• The Reich Ministry of the Interior bans Jews from health spas.• The Reich Ministry of Education bans Jewish teachers from public schools.• The Army Law expels Jewish officers from the army.• The Law on the Admission to the Legal Profession forbids the admission of Jews to the bar.• The Law on Editors bans Jews from editorial posts.• The Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service removes Jews from government service.• The Gun Law bans Jewish gun merchants.The essence of the Nazi propaganda method was repetition.The message penetrated the barriers of inattention through the massive insistence on its replication. Goebbels was a proponent of the “repeated exposure effect.” The mass mind was dull and sluggish, and for ideas to take root, they had to be constantly re-seeded: recognition, comprehension, retention, and conviction are different stages in the cognitive process, and repetition can facilitate them. Another core part of Nazi grand theory was the dethronement of reason and the celebration of emotion. Nazism felt rather than thought, and therefore the nature of its propaganda appeal was also to feeling rather than thinking. The mobilization of emotion lay at the heart of everything the Nazis did; propaganda’s operational formula. For Goebbels, the role of the propagandist was to express in words what his audience felt in their hearts.