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To: Pyro7480
Wow - what a piece of work. Full of lies from beginning to end.

Just one example -- Bavaria didn't like the Weimar government because it was too far left for a very conservative state. But they didn't like Hitler either -- the Beer Hall Putsch was crushed by the Bavarian police, Hitler was arrested and did time in Landsberg prison. This is support?

I don't have time to point out all the outright lies in here. They can't be errors, because nobody is that stupid. Just character assassination "by any means necessary."

8 posted on 04/27/2005 6:18:02 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
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To: AnAmericanMother

The basic premise of Bavaria being particularly Nazi is false. Birthplace of the Nazi party, yes, particularly Nazi, no.

Consider the following from the History Channel (http://www.historystudystop.co.uk/php/displayarticle.php?article=66&topic=meu):

The Nazis won a higher share of the vote in Protestant, rather than Catholic, areas. In July 1932 the Nazi share of the vote was indeed twice as high in Protestant areas as in Catholic. The Catholic Centre party regularly gained 11-12 per cent of the vote and did not lose support to the Nazis. This is not to say that Hitler and the Nazis received no support from Catholics, but this support came in special circumstances. In Silesia, for instance, where there were strong nationalist grievances against neighbouring Poland, many Catholics did vote Nazi.


11 posted on 04/27/2005 6:41:31 PM PDT by tridentine
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