Posted on 03/22/2005 7:20:59 AM PST by Pikamax
sucker born every minute!
Explaining Hitler's appeal over there is easy. It's the Hasslehoff thing that's more mystifying.
To do so, he gave them huge tax breaks and introduced social benefits that even today anchor the society.
Sounds amazingly similar to the methods of Democrats.
After trying to ty Hitler to Bush and Reagan for tax breaks she has to admit that Hitler was a Socialist pure and simple.
Interesting. Napoleon fell into essentially the same trap. He had to keep expanding, as new plunder was essential to finance his existing military machine, on which his power was based. His attempt to expand into Russia was obviously one country too far, as was Hitler's attempt to do the same.
Public schools rewrote history and Hitler youth groups taught the children to report their parents to their teachers for anti-Nazi remarks. Such parents disappeared. Pagan animism became the state religion of the Third Reich and Christians were widely condemned as "right wing fanatics".
They weren't called the National Socialist Party for nothing. Only today the socialists don't enslave a class of people. They take about half the earnings from the productive in taxes and re-distribute those taxes to a non-productive class who are numerically greater.
Of course; this explains Germany to a "t."
Sargon the Great had the same problem. So did Genghis Khan. Once you've build this huge army that your economy cannot support, the only thing you can do is set it off in search of plunder to sustain it.
Peronist Argentina could be kept going on wartime commodity export profits. For a while. But then to keep the party of guaranteed profits and guaranteed raises going they had to print money. The presence of the US meant that Peronist Argentina couldn't invade Brazil.
With the destruction of the Jews, how many law practices, professorships, medical practices, business markets, etc did that open up ?
low taxes? lol
Undoubtedly this book is going to supply the socialist pro-tax and anti-war left in this country with ammunition. Of course, they will NEVER mention that Hitler and the Nazis were socialists.
Any depiction of the Nazis as "socialist" collapses in the face of the unshakeable fact that fascist violence was entirely directed against the left. Never the right. In fact, the conservative right (the Army, the Churches, High Society) survived intact and even prospered under fascism. Hitler and Mussolini were never in a position to replace their royalist generals with fascists. Under fascism the conservative right survived and prospered. The left was completely destroyed.
In fact, once the war was obviously lost it was the old boy network that was the basis of the peace party that plotted against both Hitler and Mussolini.
The National Socialist Workers Party was a leftwing group.
Not once did Stalin mention Communism in his propaganda to rally the people. It was always the "Motherland". The same with Hitler.
"The book could have been written 10 years ago, even 20 years ago," he says. All of the documents were there. We just weren't open to them. Personally, I didn't have the questions then."
There are plenty of books that have already been written with similar ideas, I've had to read a few of them. In my last semester of college all I needed was to collect a few credits. I liked history, so I took Nazi Germany because it fit my time slot. Well, this ex-Harvard professor comes in and give us the class reading list that included 5 rather large books, many of which covered the same things this article did. Apparently Germans weren't interested in these painful memories back then.
Germany was in terrible shape - European-wide economic depression, and they had taken the worst of it to go along with the brunt, blame and punishment for WWI. Hitler played on national pride to overcome his political competitors. Bit by bit, the people feeling better about themselves and began surrendering freedoms as a minor trade off. By the time people realized that things were amiss, they were already in too deep. The one thing Nazis did was to equate themselves to Nationalism. Anything said negatively against the Nazis was treasonous, and with secret police and fear running rampant - friends and neighbor would turn each other in. Nationalism became the excuse and justification for everything.
"My cousin Francis [I of France] and I are in complete agreement -- he wants Vienna, and so do I."
--Emperor Charles V
The truth of this seems to be lost on the Left in Iraq - where they insist that Saddam and a few henchmen were the only bad guys, and thus the invasion was unnecessary and we are acting as "imperialists". No dictatorship survives without significant popular support, and much of our post-war troubles have been caused by those supporters - who lived the good life under Saddam and face uncertain futures under a democratic government.
Please read your history.
Tens of thousands of Catholic priests were murdered in concentration camps.
Hitler raised taxes on the rich and confiscated their wealth. He was all for class warfare
The army was purges of all non party (Nazi) members
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