85yr. old Austrian, Lived Under Hitler, Says We’re Screwed

E-mail circulated since at least December 2012 via clashdaily.com ^ | December 2012

[ansel12]

I have no idea what you are trolling about.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

You know how to make assumptions... and enemies...

I’m not a Christian.

[SJackson]

Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume

If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.

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[Marcella]

“I’m 63 and see it from a slightly longer perspective of time. The rate of fall is increasing dramatically, and the sudden stop at the bottom, is going to be fatal to the country.”

I am 80 and I find myself thinking of earlier times of my life and how the country was then as it developed into what it is now. That “normalcy bias” kicks in and I think surely nothing terrible will happen, all will be okay. Then, I change my mind and see us going into a permanent dark age - a breakdown of all we have known.

In the chaos theory, it's the butterfly wing flaps. One flap is nothing and the next one is nothing, but over time, the flaps add up and suddenly critical mass has been reached and the explosion happens. We have enough butterfly wing flaps that we are close to the last one flapping, then destruction.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Your Golden Calf is a Hollow Bronze Bull...

You aren’t fooling me.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Your Golden Calf is a hollow Bronze Bull...

I’m not a Christian.

You coming here to piss all over my Christian friends is another matter.

[RaceBannon]

And may you have a wonderful Passover :)

[AnalogReigns]

"Hitler was born at Braunau. Braunau is in that part of Upper Austria which went Protestant at the Reformation. After that it was forcibly Catholicised by the forces of the Counter-Reformation, the Hapsburgs and the Jesuits. Since then there has been no religion in that part of the world."

Fascinating. That really does explain a lot.

Areas in NY state, and other parts of the rust-belt were consistently prowled by Rev. Charles Finey and other 19th C. equivelents to today's tele-evangelists.

Today they are known as the "burnt out" areas--where few religious people remain...

[AnalogReigns]

The article isn’t quite correct about the Austrians “electing” Hitler. The Austrian government agreed to the annexation and Hitler’s military moved in...to widespread approval, very true. But only weeks later AFTER the Nazis had full control was a plebecite election held...so people could of had all kinds of motivations to approve of Hitler, and I expect the Nazis would of had no qualms about rigging the vote either. 98% approved of the annexation, AFTER it was done...but they didn’t really “elect” dictator Hitler.

None-the-less it is true, that at first, Hitler’s Nazism was much more popular in Austria, than it ever was in Germany.

It’s also true there were more un-repentant Nazis—and antisemitism and neo-Nazis today—in Austria, than in Germany.

Cold war pressure—made us focus most all of the blame for WWII on Germany, not Austria, therefore historically since, there has been less national repentance and reform...

[Sir Francis Dashwood]