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1 posted on 10/31/2014 2:52:08 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

The Nazis blamed the Reichstag fire on the Communists. The fire allowed Hitler as chancellor to institute a clause in the Weimar Constitution called the ‘’Enabling Act’’ which effectively put the country under a state of martial law.


2 posted on 10/31/2014 3:06:26 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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East Germany mostly votes for the leftist scum. Reunification was a mistake for the West.


3 posted on 10/31/2014 6:57:30 PM PDT by Impy (Voting democrat out of spite? Then you are America's enemy, like every other rat voter.)
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To: Kaslin

I was stationed in West Berlin from 84-88 and crossed into East Berlin at Checkpoint Charlie many times. The rapidity in which the Berlin Wall, and the rest of the Communist empire, collapsed was nothing short of stunning.


8 posted on 11/01/2014 6:27:19 AM PDT by ops33 (Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
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12 posted on 11/02/2014 6:09:26 AM PST by foreverfree
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To: Kaslin
The failure of the DDR always reminds me of the photo of this East German soldier escaping to the West:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mTaarJ7PJLU/SvadTPQ52BI/AAAAAAAABlY/x5ojWFFKVO4/s1600/berlin%2Bwall%2Beast%2Bgerman%2Bsoldier%2Bescapes.jpg

18 posted on 11/04/2014 4:13:45 PM PST by Does so (SCOTUS Newbies Imperil USA...)
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