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Who Goes Nazi?
Harpers ^
| August 1941
| Dorothy Thompson
Posted on 09/08/2024 11:47:53 AM PDT by grey_whiskers
It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one’s acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go Nazi. By now, I think I know. I have gone through the experience many times—in Germany, in Austria, and in France. I have come to know the types: the born Nazis, the Nazis whom democracy itself has created, the certain-to-be fellow-travelers. And I also know those who never, under any conceivable circumstances, would become Nazis.
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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Conspiracy; History; Society
KEYWORDS: culture; dorothythompson; harpers; karens; nazis; politics; sovietpropaganda; weird; wordsalad
Fascinating read; and a note of how far periodicals have fallen.
Interesting description of types.
To: grey_whiskers; ransomnote; bitt; Jane Long; metmom; neverdem; SunkenCiv; Cindy; LucyT; decimon; ...
*PING* to an 80-year-old magazine piece, strangely topical.
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posted on
09/08/2024 11:49:23 AM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: grey_whiskers
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posted on
09/08/2024 11:51:23 AM PDT
by
ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: grey_whiskers
How about the economic turnaround?
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posted on
09/08/2024 11:56:14 AM PDT
by
wastedyears
(The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
To: grey_whiskers
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posted on
09/08/2024 12:06:56 PM PDT
by
marron
To: grey_whiskers
The author has it all wrong. Sure, some of the people she mentions would "go Nazi" and some would not. But a great many Germans "went Nazi" because they believed what they were told by the German government, controlled by the Nazi machine.
I highly recommend the book: They Thought They Were Free.
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posted on
09/08/2024 12:07:55 PM PDT
by
marktwain
(The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
To: grey_whiskers
Who Goes Nazi?These days, it's Zeepers going Full Nazi.
It ain't 80 years ago.
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posted on
09/08/2024 12:08:11 PM PDT
by
Navy Patriot
(Celebrate Decivilization)
Comment #8 Removed by Moderator
To: grey_whiskers
I didn’t see the publication date listed, but from comments in the article it must have been written between the fall of France and the establishment of Vichy France, and the attack on Pearl Harbor. So between July 1940 and November 1941. I would guess late 1940 before the inevitability of conflict with Germany had become apparent?
To: grey_whiskers
To: EnderWiggin1970
Silly me, now I see you posted it in the OP. August 1941. So much for pinpoint accuracy, but at least I was over the target!
To: marktwain
The alternative in 30s Germany was Communism. The Weimar government was very weak.
To: grey_whiskers
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posted on
09/08/2024 2:45:10 PM PDT
by
Theophilus
(covfefe)
To: kaktuskid
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posted on
09/08/2024 2:52:39 PM PDT
by
Theophilus
(covfefe)
To: grey_whiskers
I just finished reading the article.
I highly recommend it.
To: marktwain
NOted; now if I could only find time to read it.
Thank you.
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posted on
09/10/2024 5:16:09 PM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
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