Maybe he got it off the British in South Africa.
And this information has been kept a secret for 80 years how, exactly.
Seems to me that the nazis were largely inspired by American progressives of the early 1900s.
What they weren't allowed to do is live uncontrolled as nomadic tribes in a modern landscape.
“and often praised to his inner circle the efficiency of America’s extermination”
Another leftist rewriting of history to attack our nation and culture.
Hitler got the idea from Stalin and his Gulags.
For a fabulous series of historical photos, click the link, full screen, sound on.
http://www.liveleak.com/ll_embed?f=d6d9d5385aee
Hitler was many things, but not a coward in the classic sense of the word. During WW1 he was awarded,
Iron Cross, First Class - 4 August 1918
Iron Cross, Second Class - 12 February 1915
Bavarian Cross of Military Merit, Third Class with Swords - 17 September 1917
Bavarian Medal of Military Service, Third Class - 25 August 1918
Regimental Diploma (Regiment "List") - 5 May 1918
Wound Badge in Black - 18 May 1918
It is nonsense.
In fact, it is much, much more likely that the Nazis drew inspiration from the Centration Camps created by the British during the Boer War.
Germans at the time were outraged at the British — and that outrage led to their willingness to “push the envelope” during WWI.
LOL! My lib friends are going to love this!
Seriously, what a country.
The left plagiarizing the left. Priceless.
The Indian Reservation System is stupid. The right thing to do would have been to admit that the Indian Nations had been conquered and almost wiped out, make all American Indians automatically American citizens, same as you and me, and drop the stupid idea of “sovereign nations” within a sovereign nation with a different set of laws and rules.
I read that Hitler got the idea of concentration camps from the English, who put the Afrikaners into concentration camps during the Boer war. I also read that as a boy Hitler and other German kids liked to play cowboys and Indians like American kids did. The American Indians also used the a symbol identical to the swastika.
He was inspired by Darwinism.
Plus there are all those historical accounts of German citizens driving all the way out to Sobibor and Treblinka to buy tax-free cigarettes and liquor, and to play slots and bingo.
The concentration camp as an idea isn’t too hard of a concept to come up with.
Honestly, it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s true. Hitler was known to ramble for hours on various subjects, and if he’s talking exterminations (or near extermination) of races it almost inevitable that the American Indians would come up. He definitely referenced the Armenian genocide.
Baloney. I’ve studied the trail of tears. It was rough by today’s standards but handled as well as they could do it back then. They certainly didn’t starve or gas them. They pleaded with Indians that signed the treaty to voluntarily leave but finally rounded them up and marched them. They went around big cities and way out of their way because they didn’t want the people to suffer the sight of the marching “savages”. I thought that was pretty stupid and represents the discrimination that existed at the time.
It was rough but nothing like nazi’s. Poor general that carried it out was an honorable humane man forced to carry out an ugly operation. I say all this as someone who is part cherokee.
Was Hitler going to turn the concentration camps into casinos? Some “native Americans” are living the good life these days.
So the good ole USA is to blame for the holocaust?
Blame America first, I suppose.
Looking up the cited author (Toland)...he’s been dead for 11 years. So this ‘bombshell’ certainly did percolate for a while. His Hitler book was published in 1976. He is also the original conspiracy theorist that FDR knew about Pearl Harbor in advance.
The article’s author (Smith)...the one who cherry picked info from a 40 year old book as if it were new...all Indian grievance, all the time:
https://twitter.com/simonmoyasmith