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In a TED-Ed video circulating on Facebook, they claim that, "Businessmen and intellectuals, wanting to be on the right side of public opinion, endorsed Hitler. They assured themselves, and each other, that his more extreme rhetoric was only for show." Is this claim accurate?

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In a TED-Ed video circulating on Facebook, they claim that, "Businessmen and intellectuals, wanting to be on the right side of public opinion, endorsed Hitler. They assured themselves, and each other, that his more extreme rhetoric was only for show." Is this claim accurate?	4755