Posted on 08/22/2017 12:08:55 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Lost in the intense debate over Charlottesville is a very important lesson that all Americans should learn. It has nothing to do with American politics or ideology. It has everything to do with history.
I have written three books about World War II and am currently researching a fourth. I can tell you with certainty that most people on this planet have no clue as to how German Nazis went about their lethal business. And that includes President Trump and many other politicians both present and past.
Exceptions are the Jewish people who directly experienced genocide at the hands of the Third Reich. In most Jewish homes around the world, the gruesome German atrocities are discussed and children are taught what happened in detail.
But in many American public schools, World War II and Nazism is barely mentioned. Adolph Hitler has become a caricature of evil, a distant monster.
He should be as vivid as today's sunrise.
The historical context of the Charlottesville reaction is that mass murder was carried out by ordinary Germans while the vast majority of that population looked away out of self-interest and fear. And these folks weren't from another planet. Did you know that German Americans comprise the largest ethnic group in this country?
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He takes great Liberties in his books, even I am told, retelling gossip and not enough facts. Why am I not surprised by his statements on Trump.
Uh, okay, Bill. Whatever.
And forget that his son in law is Jewish.
Picture postcard from Binz:
Torch-walk towards Prora
https://flic.kr/p/XYKQsp
Sheesh. I thought we were rid of this pompous ass.
oh really?
What is the possible relevance of this observation? (Hey, BOR, meet Dwight David *Eisenhower*, a German-American who did more to defeat the Nazis before breakfast than you'll do your whole life.)
Bill O’Reilly does not write “history” books, he writes speculative history books. What he “knows” about what Trump knows about the evils of the Nazis wouldn’t fill the tip of my little finger.
I think O’Reilly’s problem is that he does not understand what Nazism really is. Mr. Trump is most definitely not a Nazi.
FDR denied Jewish Refugees entrance into the United States when Nazism took hold in Germany.
FDR forced Japanese American Citizens into Concentration Camps denying them their Freedom and their Private Property Rights.
FDR is the best Democrat ever!
Excerpts from Bill’s next Book, Killing FDR.
>>>O’Reilly’s real failure is that he’s an idiot<<<
Nope, that’s his accomplishment and he keeps reminding us of it with idiotic comments like this.
Looks like 0'Reilly is the idiot that doesn't know history. He's just virtue signalling by suggesting that Trump must follow the sheep herd. Yes, in American popular culture of the past half century Nazis have been the preeminent boogeyman. But only because we fought them directly and paid a high price to defeat them. Not at all because their atrocities exceeded those of Stalin, Mao and Tojo. They did not.
No. The media doesn’t understand.
just have one thing to say to Bill O’Obloviator;
BILL—JUST SHUT UP.
You are not nearly as intelligent as you think you are.
Soros
It is a provable fact that Uncle Joe Stalin (communist/socialist) was directly responsible for murdering more people than Adolf Hitler (fascist/nazi).
The Enimedia conveniently forgets to report on this fact.
The Nazis only got 2.6% of the vote in 1928, and many Germans did think of them as "low IQ thugs."
I'm not saying Nazis are a large group or are going to take over the US, but a lot of what people say about fringe groups now, isn't so different from what they said back in the 1920s.
Most of the German Nazis weren't great brains by any means.
I almost agree.
He’s not even nearly intelligent.
LOL
We’re on the same page. He doesn’t get Conservatism and never did.
He’s part of the problem. I’ve seen this guy confuse issues for too many years. He doesn’t know what Conservatism is, so he can’t guard his own comment much less anyone elses.
From time to time, he’ll get it right. It’s pure luck when he does.
Very true.
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