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Here is an excerpt from a book I recently read, "The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump," by Michiko Kakutani:

Klemperer devoted an entire chapter to the Nazis’ obsession with numbers and superlatives; everything had to be the best or the most. If a German from the Third Reich went on an elephant hunt, Klemperer wrote, he would have to boast that he’d “finished off the biggest elephants in the world, in unimaginable numbers, with the best weapon on earth.”