[EternalVigilance]

"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

- George Santayana

[Uhaul]

Excellent - excellent post.

[WOSG]

Fascinating letter about the cult of Hitler.
Economic distress begets demagogues and dangerous ideologies.

[the invisib1e hand]

EV, it might be good, in light of what might be suggested by this thread -- that is, a seemingly, potentially prophetic parallel between the conditions in pre-Nazi Germany and the potential US conditions, at least in two realms: politics and economics -- that the letter be verified. Is a scan available somewhere?

And, in light of what is suggested, I'm glad you don't launch off into a defeatist dirge about how inevitable something awful is, absolutely.

No such thing is inevitable, no matter how close we come to it.

[Pinkbell]

It’s eerily similar. We must pray for our country.

[Wil H]

They had their Austrian usurper, we have our Kenyan one...

[Kimmers]

We helped to rescue them and defeat Hitler.....is there anyone that will do the same for us.....

chilling letter....

[Domandred]

I fed this to my word pad and replaced Hitler with Obama, Hindenburg with Bush, Germany with America, etc.

Read it to an office worker. She said yep that's about right. Whoever wrote that is right on.

She even laughed about "Obama is coming now and then I don’t have to pay anything" saying "I remember that lady!!"

Then I told her it was written in 1932 to Hitler. I just replaced the names.

She said quietly "oh my G_d"

[ColdSteelTalon]

Obama does have a cult of personailty. And that can be dangerous. People who have a fanatical love for a leader will look the other way, when and if that leader does wicked things. Hitler of course was an extreme example.

People need to keep in mind that their leaders are human perhaps too human.

[big'ol_freeper]

Scary stuff. Thanks for posting.

[Paladin2]

Heil 0bama?

[freekitty]

You got that right.

[HollyB]

Amazing letter. Makes us think. I’d like to know of his fate.

[the invisib1e hand]

Anyway, history can't be repeating because Hitler obviously never had an icon dedicated to songs about him on iTunes.

[spacejunkie01]

So is the letter real or what? I can’t figure out what the back and forth in the thread is about.

[Gritty]

Comparing Hitler and 0bama is silly.

Hitler had a mustache and wasn't even a German! Oh, wait...

[Wilhelm Tell]

Wow. The more things “Change,” the more they stay the same.

[sionnsar]

Whatever became of Fr. Ingbert Naab?

[deannadurbin]

Did Hitler ever receive the letter?

[DuncanWaring]

This-is-just-plain-creepy Ping.

[Mike Darancette]

I so want to re-post this elsewhere but even though the players can be documented there seems no other reference to the letter. My comment as of now is that megalomania is timeless.