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I used to wonder how the German people of the early-1930s could blindly support such a horrible man.

But I think I’ve seen firsthand how it happened with Obama and his supporters.

Blind devotion is a dangerous thing.

my German mother is almost hysterical at what is happening here. Before the war, she worked for a Family who had joined the NAZI Party and the Father became an officer. She was told she had to join the party to keep her job. She didn’t. She had no papers was arrested twice. The first time she was sent to a work farm, from which she escaped. The second, she was in France and escaped out the bathroom window. To this day, she is still defiant about ‘paperwork’.
She didn’t know what was coming. But we can recognize a pattern developing. I don’t believe that Obama is ‘the One’. It will be someone who comes after him, who will promise the ‘fix’ the mess he’s made. Prepare accordingly.

Blind devotion to a messianic personality of either right or left wing politically, is indeed a horrible thing for a democratic republic.

During the 2008 election I noticed the similarity between the adoration of the masses for Obama, and a nearly identical devotion to Hitler as recorded by the visual media of their times. In particular, I noticed that the faces of women in both eras were in awe of both men.

I was just recently laid low by some kind of viral bug, and while hunkering down on the sofa one day watched a BBC documentary series on the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. It was very fascinating to listen to the nazi survivors explain how they had no remorse for their actions because they had accepted the national propoganda telling them that the Jews were evil. They explained how the teaching was everywhere and very thorough to the point that it was all they new.

I sometimes wonder - Will our current time in history ever been looked at with unclouded eyes? And, if so, how will the press be viewed?

The German people will desperate, they had a chip on their should from the loss in WWI, and it wasn’t only hardcore Nazis that believed the “stabbed in the back” theory, it was pretty much universally accepted in Weimar Germany.

Then comes the Great Depression, which decimated Germany, it’s not hard to see how these things provided fertile ground for a movement like the Nazis to come to power.

And the thing is, if the Nazis didn’t come to power, most likely it would have been Thaelmann’s Communists that did. And what’s interesting is that it would have set up ultimately a rivalry between Germany and the Soviet Union as to who would control the worldwide Communist movement, and likely there still would have been war between the two.

It almost happened in this country in the 1930s, with the Fascist Huey Long.....he used a lot of Hitler’s techniques, and I’m convinced had he not been assassinated, he could have wound up as a virtual dictator, as he was in Louisiana.

I remember in college listening to a guest speaker. A very ‘Aryan’ looking German Jew of upper middle class background who got out of the Reich after the Nuremberg Laws were put in place. He said that in the early 30’s and up until he left Berlin he would try to go to any public speech Hitler made and otherwise try and hear AH on radio. He described him as the most mesmeric orator and political personality he ever encountered. Hitler's ability to use the grievances real and imagined of the ordinary German to propagate his vision of the world and what the Reich should be for German's was absolutely mepistalphilian . He further stated had he not been a Jew it was certain he would have embraced National socialism enthusiastically as so many of his fellow German's did. This was the most sobering point he made. ‘Was I any different from my neighbors and fellow German's. No. I just happened to be blessed with not being able to belong to the NS Volkstaat.’