Posted on 05/18/2015 10:49:33 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Goebbels was a frustrated intellectual and brittle womanizer: “I need women . . . like a balm on a wound.”
In the autumn of 1923, a melancholy young man in the German Rhineland began keeping a diary. A frustrated writer and occasional journalist, he had a Ph.D. in literature and a moody disposition. He had been given the diary by a girlfriend as a way of assuaging the crisis into which he believed his life had spiraled. He recorded his gratitude on the opening page: “My dear, kind love!” he wrote in the first entry. “You raise me up and g
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The making of the Democratic Progressive!!!
Today he would have a show on MSNBC.
Actually he would be a tenured professor of German Literature at Harvard
Can’t read the story without subscribing to the WSJ. No thanks.
Interesting. First I’ve read that he had a PhD.
We’re always told that the Nazis were uncultured rubes from Bavaria. I guess admitting that they were frustrated academics and artists doesn’t fit the narative.
Please post the whole thing. I am. It interested in subscribing to the WSJ
http://www.wearesc.com/forums/forum/main-category/off-topic/623804-the-don-draper-of-the-third-reich
The biggest sales of this book will be to aspiring socialists in search of an instruction manual.
Socialists who would kill their children rather than live in a world without their dictator...
Many Nazis were brilliant and evil.
Thanks.
On the contrary, many psychopathic despots fit into the 'frustrated artist', 'frustrated academic' category. Hitler, Mao and Stalin were painters, poets and sketch artists respectively. Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi were frustrated poets.
His subject matter was batshit crazy. But you have to admit he would have found a home in Madison Avenue in any other modern era. Or on K Street.
Barky's a frustrated poet too, published a disturbing poem about a man-boy relationship.
It makes sense on many levels.
Friends of mine were in multilevel marketing, A doctor and an PhD. Made tons of money because people thought, well if these intelligent people say it is ok then ...
Other friends were double docs couple who became franchise owners. The franchising company dragged them out all the time to show how smart it is to work with them.
Sadly double doc didn’t have double business abilities and bellied up.
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