[grey_whiskers]

Please, click on the link and read the whole thing. Interesting and chilling parallels for today.

Please read my following comments in this thread only AFTER reading the article.

[grey_whiskers]

*PING*

Please, click on the link and read the whole thing.

Interesting and chilling parallels for today.

Please read my following comments in this thread only AFTER reading the article.

[Sherman Logan]

The king threatened to dispossess the miller, whereupon the miller said, "Just so, Your Majesty, but there's still the Kammergericht in Berlin."

Frederick the Great was an absolute monarch. No person or organization in Prussia had any way to resist his whim if he chose to force the issue. If this story is true, he backed down rather than violate his own laws.

Which tells us a lot about Fred.

[Sherman Logan]

Remember, only 36% of Germans actually voted for Hitler directly, the rest simply went along.

Inaccurate. 44% voted for the Nazis and 8% for their parliamentary allies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_March_1933

That was in the last free election held, but foreign observers during the mid and late 30s were unanimous that the Nazis were wildly popular and would probably have obtained upwards of 75% in free elections.

No such elections were held, for the simple reason that the Nazis did not believe in elections or base their legitimacy on them.

[Tax-chick]

bttt

[kabumpo]

Aargh...I cannot believe that there is yet another person who wants to be taken seriously who doesn’t know that the plural of Nazi is Nazis, not Nazi’s.

[kabumpo]

Aargh...I cannot believe that there is yet another person who wants to be taken seriously who doesn’t know that the plural of Nazi is Nazis, not Nazi’s.