Posted on 03/05/2014 7:18:39 PM PST by lbryce
“Im Not Comparing Putin To Hitler, Im Just Saying Hes Acting Like Hitler”.......
Isn’t saying that a “verbal” comparison?
See for example http://www.fantompowa.net/Flame/yugoslavia_collaboration.htm
The Nazis recruited two SS divisions from Yugoslavia's Muslim population: the infamous Bosnian 13th Waffen Hanjar (or Handschar) SS division, and the Albanian Skanderbeg 21st Waffen SS division. SS conscription in Yugoslavia during the war produced 42,000 Waffen SS and police troops.
The Encyclopedia of the Holocaust states: "They participated in the massacre of civilians in Bosnia and volunteered to join in the hunt for Jews in Croatia . . . The Germans made a point of publicizing the fact that Husseini had flown from Berlin to Sarajevo for the sole purpose of giving his blessing to the Muslim army ..."
:-)
Here is something that never occurred to me until my brilliant Libertarian friend emailed me this:(btw, I keep encouraging him to post on Freeper!)
Here’s his take on the Hitler comment....
“So now Hillary has compared Vladimir Putin to everyone’s favorite historic villain; who else but Adolf Hitler?
Now why should she choose Hitler when there is another historic villain who could serve just as well, Josip Stalin? Putin and Stalin both ruled much the same country. And Putin served Stalin’s organization that struck fear into all its citizens, the KGB. No, they had to dig out Hitler. (Not that others haven’t done the same. Bush compared Hussein to Hitler, also.)
Hillary and others compare Hitler’s annexation of the Sudetenland with its ethnic Germans to Putin’s grab for Crimea with its ethnic Russians. But any such comparison would bring interest in the horrors of communism which progressives such as Hillary, Barack and Pelosi still admire! That’s why. They want nothing to smear the great ideology they still, deep down, admire.
Don’t you know Stalin, Pol Pot and Mao were aberrations and not true representatives of socialism? “
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