Welcome to Circa 1945: Breaking the Machine. A podcast of parables about the Holocaust, and what it would take to build a genocide-proof society.

This week, we’re listening for a different kind of signal — not a shout, not a slogan, but a frequency.

Because hatred rarely announces itself.

More often, it hums under the surface — in jokes, in phrases, in the words that sound harmless to some and threatening to others.

Today’s story is about those frequencies — dog whistles — and the people who have learned to hear them.

Check out ⁠this link⁠ to the ADL's most comprehensive database of coded language and symbols.

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