Even some Nazis thought Céline’s antisemitic pronouncements were so extreme that they were counter-productive. Bernard Payr, the German superintendent of propaganda in France, considered that Céline “started from correct racial notions” but his “savage, filthy slang” and “brutal obscenities” spoiled his “good intentions” with “hysterical wailing”. celine antisemitism
Learned helplessness… a mental state in which an organism forced to endure aversive stimuli, or stimuli that are painful or otherwise unpleasant, becomes unable or unwilling to avoid subsequent encounters with those stimuli, even if they are escapable, presumably because it has learned that it cannot control the situation