Posted on 05/05/2020 7:22:07 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
You got that right. They especially respected each other’s ruthlessness. In the bunker at the war’s end, Hitler claimed that he should have purged his general’s when he first came to power like Stalin. In his mind, this was his biggest mistake.
The poor were very eager Nazis.
Same with racism in the Jim Crow South - it's always portrayed as poor rednecks keeping the system going - but it wasn't. Southern elites were all in on racism at the time and they were powerful democrats - Senators like Robert Byrd, Presidents like Johnson and all the way down to mayors and newspaper editors. The folks willing to stand up against that evil were few and far between. I suspect it was exactly the same in prewar Germany.
Also don’t forget that Adolph Hitler accurately predicted the vulnerability of the German economy to loans floated to the Wiemar Republic by various US entities. With the Great Depression smashing the US economy, and the recall of those loans, the German economy was further impacted by the crisis then it would otherwise be.
Many Germans than saw Hitler as some kind of oracle/prophet.
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