I disagree (sort of). I think the history you should be looking at is not German history, but *Roman* history. The US compares much more closely with Rome, IMO, than with Germany (though there are parallels there, too).
I think the US will end up the same way Rome did...with much the same results, only on a larger scale and much more rapidly due to technology, which speeds everything up.
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For instance, Hitler (and Stalin) took the children from the parents and put them in government schools. Now government has taken over the colleges that teach teachers and he presses that write the textbooks and brain washes the kids that way. Let the parents put up with the brats out of school. Much smoother this way. Much more effective, too.