I'm still reading a lot about Hitler/ WWII. Currently making my way through The Holocaust: A New History, by Laurence Rees, author of Hitler's Charisma, the last book. Some parallels are beyond striking. There were people who praised Hitler because he 'told it like it was', rather than follow the political mold of before. I'm most interested in how the average mind could be flipped to evil. I remember, I think this was in a documentary, that one of the first thing the Nazis did was give away radios, so that everyone could follow them. I suppose that before TV, a radio was like every social media site tied together in one big bow.
@Wetrix I do understand that already. What I would like, for history's sake, and the sake of my children, is for people to recognize what's happening before it's too late.
I blame Americans more for what's happening there more than any German when. The German population was under extreme financial distress - the economic collapse and the Communist Revolution in Russia. What you have to understand is just how long propaganda has been feed to the dumbest of Americans. It's been happening for at least 20 years through Fox News/ Right Wing Radio.
@Expat1975 well the sad part about it is that history repeats itself, constantly. And it'll happen again even though we know better.
Many people are worried this is coming in the USA, and soon. The top 1% control 99% of the wealth.
The last time this happened and people got fed up, it was called the French revolution where the masses quite literally dragged the rich and aristocracy from there homes and cut there heads off with this spiffy new invention called the gulotine
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@Expat1975 on top of all this in the end they fought for Hitler because they had no choice.
The rest of the world hated them and you had the Americans coming from the west that had discovered the concentration camps and the Russians from the east that they had butchered like sub humans so it was fight for Germany or die anyway.
@Expat1975 you have to remember that most Germans weren't evil, but that they had to tow the party line and beliefs because of you didn't you did a disappearing act.
Nazi Germany had zero tolerance for dissedence and didn't hide the fact.
Beyond that you had the gestapo and kids in many cases that would turn in there own parents if they weren't loyal (brainwashing from the Hitler youth and schools)