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What does it mean?
Schirach simply states that they held a belief, without elaboration.
In plain terms
We just believed.
What can you take from it?
Belief can be held without explanation.

Where it applies

  • historical analysis
  • ideological studies

Putting it to work

  • examine the foundations of group convictions

Questions to consider

  • What was the belief and why?

Another view

Lacks context to understand what was believed.

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