Posted on 05/26/2019 5:02:34 PM PDT by LS
My hat’s off to you. Everything you say, I agree.
People are willing to “follow orders” when it means they keep their jobs, and their pensions. Not really talking about concentration camp goons here, just everyday functionaries and bureaucrats.
When the local politicians say “stand down” for example time and again we’ve seen the law enforcement stand idly by as normal people are assaulted. Sound familiar? It should.
Strangely our universities have the tenure system, ostensibly they cannot be fired for holding certain positions, or saying certain things - yet they have rolled over en masse for all kinds of crazy stuff. That makes no sense.
Especially when the horrific stuff is taking place hundreds of miles from your cities.
Out of sight, out of mind.
I liked your review and agree with it. I read another book some years ago, “Hitler’s Willing Accomplices” proving that the majority of German civilians backed Hitler’s actions against the Jews and turned a blind eye towards the 10,000 concentration camps where million were murdered.
So, how about we -
1/ Forgive the college loan debts of the current tribe who are living in mom’s basement, then
2/ Supply dope at wholesale cost and put ‘em on the welfare roles.
3/ Then, increase for welfare benefits by 50% for both the domestic and “undocumented” types.
At that point, have we reached critical mass to where it would be no big deal for the BDS and Antifa slime to agree to ship the “Evil Joosh” off to G-d knows where and confiscate their wealth?
Thank you for making us aware of this book. I have quite a few books on dictators and dictatorships, so I am eager to acquire books that examine the more quotidian aspects of life in those regimes.
So the Nazis started to lose the war when they ran out of rich people from whom to redistribute?
4/ Continue the illusion of growth via deficit spending and ever increasing national debt.
Does the author touch on the Nazi’s policy of looting the central banks of conquered nations and hauling the gold and other assets back to the Reich?
ROFL!!!
Bro if you dont know the history of The Versailles Treaty (which i mentioned) or the rampant poverty and inflation in Germany (which I mentioned) then I don’t have a month worth of course work to teach you.
You seem well learned so I kinda figure you know those.
Funny, everyone else who replied to my comment (besides the obviously biased poster of the thread) agreed with my presentation.
Enjoy your Memorial Day!!
To avoid such stringencies in World War II, Germany's Admiral Erich Raeder proposed taking the Mediterranean, then Egypt and the rest of the Mideast, and extending German bases down the east coast of Africa to South Africa. By the interdiction of air and sea travel, Germany would deprive the British of control of those countries and regions and endanger their dominant position in India and South Asia. This would have gained vast new resources for Germany while depriving Britain of them.
Moreover, with access to Allied supplies lost, the Soviet Union would have been weakened and might have been forced to accommodate to German demands. A German invasion of the USSR might have been unnecessary, or it would have been easier and more certain of success.
Yes. At length.
pretty much. Course, there were the real military defeats as well.
You are welcome. Warning, the middle 100 pp are really dry.
Yes. another good one.
“...The Versailles Treaty is more to blame for WWII than the average German....” [dp0622, post 4]
“Yep.” [mrmeyer, post 13]
Thoroughly misunderstands the First World War and misstates the aftermath.
Plundering the conquered lands was not some uniquely goofy notion that occurred to NSDAP leaders one morning, after yet one more dreary late night at the Berghof, watching American Western films, sipping tea and nibbling cake, and struggling not to nod off in the middle of Adolf’s monologues.
It was explicit Third Reich strategy and military policy, foreseen from the outset. It was also firmly grounded in German (Prussian) history & culture. Happened during WW One, to such an extent that Left-leaning History Channel/American Heroes Channel content providers have mentioned it repeatedly.
The Kaiser’s army and the German people lived high on the hog until the Allied naval blockade produced results. Unterseebooten of the Kaiserliche Marine attempted to starve UK out of the conflict, but failed to by a margin of a few weeks only.
1914-1918 illustrates the messiness and ambiguity that attend conflict between a maritime power and a land power. Blockades are unavoidably slow & relentlessly cruel.
The assertion that the 1919 Versailles Treaty was uniquely unfair and immoral is Progressive revisionist hoo-hah: conservatives ought to have better judgment than to be taken in by such propaganda.
Reparations & punitive demands had been a central feature of European conflicts, treaty negotiations, and political maneuvering for centuries - since before most people became literate there. What miracle in international affairs and Great-Power gamesmanship happened in the early 20th century that would have caused those countries to abandon the only rules they knew?
Forum members appear to have missed the fact that the Progressives were thoroughly in love with Italian Fascism, and, later, German National Socialism. They ached to bring about similar changes in the United States and Britain, flacking the New Deal, begging for more-radical policies, and later agitating for “peace.”
Until Hitler attacked the Soviet Union.
And Norway, and Denmark. Oh wait.
“Already a massive confiscation of Jewish wealth was under way through taxes, special taxes, elimination of all Jewish savings in anything except German bonds, confiscation of all Jewish-owned works of art, jewelry, or other assets, all of which were sold immediately with all money going back to the Reich. These and other “atonement” payments increased the German treasury by 6% but Aly’s calculations show that ultimately a whopping 9% of ALL Germany’s budget came from the Jews. “
Socialism based on race, sound familiar?
Cross out “jews” and write in “white males”...
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