Posted on 05/05/2012 7:00:09 PM PDT by iowamark
we probably should be reading up.
Pinging myself for later.
Sounds like a good book, as well as a timely one. I’ve been a big fan of the Internet Archive for quite a while, and this reminds me of something I found there not too long ago. I was on a tear, enjoying stick footage movies (a neat way to travel in time, as it were). One is about Italy under fascism, narrated by Lowell Thomas, and rather sympathetic to the fascists. See here: http://archive.org/details/AFP-80D_Mussolini_Speaks_Pt5
Once, our predecessors thought well of (at least) the ability of people like the fascists to get things done. This was a surface view, not universal but noted, and well before the evil was unavoidable, outside of men like Mr. Churchill.
Modern Germany was created when Bavaria and other small German states merged with Prussia in 1871. A republican government emerged after the monarchy was toppled in 1918.
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The Austrian Nazis were even more fanatical than the German ones.
In my freshman year of college,before I went into WWII service, I took a course on ‘Contemporary Literature’. Subject matter included discussion and reading of works by Lippmann, Hitler, Mussolini, Chase, and others especially communists such as Marx and Lenin. This was a time of world turmoil with all kinds of groups in the USA each promoting their own brand of society/government. The Professor, who was known to be left leaning, had a question on the final exam to define propaganda. My answer very pointedly was the stuff he had us reading and discussing especially as to communism. I recall he commented that my answer was unique but I got an A for the course.
Thanks, will check this book out.
Also, you might be interested in a book that becomes available free at the Amazon Kindle Store from time to time (you don’t have to have a Kindle, you can download the app and read it on your pc).
The Secret Holocaust Diaries; The Untold Story of Nonna Bannister....Nonna Bannister carried a secret almost to her Tennessee grave: the diaries she kept as a young girl experiencing the horrors of the Holocaust while learning compassion and love for her fellow human beings. Nonna’s writings tell the remarkable tale of how a Russian girl, born into a family that had known wealth and privileges, was exposed to the concentration camps and learned the value of human life and the importance of forgiveness.
A quick yet informative, interesting read.
BFL
I’ll check out both books!
The creation in 1871 followed a war between Prussia and Austria to determine which of those large German states would dominate the smaller ones. After Prussia won, Austria looked southwards for expansion (resulting in Austria-Hungary, which encompassed much of the Balkans as well). Hitler always felt that Austria should have been included in the new Germany, and made it clear in his book.
“Germany was created after WWI”
really...and just WHO were we @ war w/ 1917-1919?
Apparently a lot of Austrians agreed.
“Greek neo-Nazis already threatening rivals after winning parliament seats”
This is an article that appeared in HOTAIR.
http://hotair.com/headlines/
Here we go again. The times are ripe.
Sorry for the misstatement. I guess I wasn’t concerned about how we got to where we were. My point was and I’m sure you understand, we are heading back there again.
Hitler was Austrian.
That, too, my point is everybody dumps on Germany for the Nazis, while Austria gets a pass for some reason.
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