Nadine Strawson
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Germany then had multiple laws that restricted hate speech, insulting speech, speech that advocated or might incite violence against various groups, including religious groups, laws against defaming or insulting a religion, including the Jewish religion, and all of those laws were very strictly enforced.
Many of the leading Nazis were repeatedly prosecuted and convicted and even served prison times. Hitler himself was actually banned from public speaking for several years. The Nazis themselves, as well as many historians, believe that the net impact of those laws censoring Nazi speech was to amplify their message, to give them attention that they otherwise would never have received.