Fact-Check For Margaret Brennan: Free Speech Did Not Exist In Nazi Germany
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Fact-Check For Margaret Brennan: Free Speech Did Not Exist In Nazi Germany

Freedom of speech disappeared into Dachau and the numerous other camps set up throughout Germany.

Hans von Spakovsky

Margaret Brennan, the host of “Face the Nation,” must have skipped basic World War II history wherever she went to school. It’s hard to fathom any other explanation for the indefensible claim she made about freedom of speech while she was debating—sorry, “interviewing”—Secretary of State Marco Rubio about Vice President Vance’s deserved chastisement of European governments for their censorship regimes.

Brennan’s claim that free speech in Europe is dangerous because in Nazi Germany it “was weaponized to conduct a genocide” is so historically wrong as to be laughable.

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