Well, at the time, Germany was really strapped for cash. Inflation was a massive problem- like people would have stacks of worthless cash outside their house and kids would play with it and starve. This was because nearly half of Europe, particularly England and France, decided to blame Germany for WW1 and force them to pay a smack ton of impossible reparations (consider how much money was put into new weapons and how much of a stalemate slaughterhouse the war was).
Also mob psychology is real. Like if people are shouting and crying and praying to this one guy who's got a crew and a logo and a promise of a better life, it's real hard to say no without possibly getting smacked up.
Isn't war fun?
Plus, I remember our teachers telling us joining the army or being a Nazi at the time was a " cool " thing to do ( of course a lot of the people on the home front didn't exactly realize the true horror going on ) and people were peer pressured into joining the movement
Pretty much, I know some countries, though, have a mandatory amount of time you're supposed to serve if you're a citizen ?
2
deleted
· 7 years ago
Yeah Hitler basically was super charismatic and a natural leader, so he promised to fix all of Germany's *huge* problems (which to be fair he did fix quite a lot) and then because of his elevation to basically godhood everyone overlooked his hatred for Jews and gays, and became kind of desensitized to the knowledge they were being slaughtered in concentration camps.
Fascinating stuff, Hitler and his Reich. Probably why i chose my username.
Make Germany Great Again and blame the Jews for all the country's woes. Jews for all of Germany's problems, from the Treaty of Versailles to hyperinflation. People either ignored his overt hatred or went along with it: He launched his political career in 1920 with a speech that declared "citizenship determined by race with no Jew to be considered a German" and "religious freedom except for religions which endanger the German race." That last quote sounds pretty familiar. So does scapegoating for political gain.
I saw Venezuelans do that to. And I was sure of what the result woukd be so it was so frustrating and so sad now. At that point I understand it was cool and many didn't know the truth about the camps and all.... but as history has showed us: stay away from a leader that blames a group of people for the country current problems and promises for the raise of a race/ socioeconomic group :(
Not that it matters out of its historicalcontext, but the word "Nazi" is an abbreviation for the word "Nationalsozialist (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei)." The National Socialist German Worker's Party.
Nazis were fascists that operated under the name of socialism in order to have people believe they were a party of, by, and for the German people so as to gain control
Actually they were not fascists because that term was coined later in Italy by Mussolini. The nazis really were the populist party. Hitler founded Volkswagen so every family could have a car and funded schools to educate even the poorest.
In order to push the image, but his game was fascism because in the end he only wanted a single race, 'pure', society by means of militarization, and complete governmental control, that's fascism
Also fascism was first seen during WWI, before Hitler was in power, not like the timing of a word's creation has any effect on whether the definition applies or not
2Reply
deleted
· 7 years ago
least we finally are getting away from that mindset with this recent election. we are finally fighting back.
I agree with this but not for the reasons you might think. It's the left that presents crime one-way so that we focus on one murder out of 100 that's white on black, and not the five black on white or 94 black on black ones. Anybody who points that out is tagged as "racist."
Trump hasn't even been sworn in yet, and the "not my president" crybabies is arrayed against anything he might do--helpful or not--to improve the economy or tax situation. It's the same bunch who wanted Trump to swear that he'd accept the outcome of the election no matter what.
We're obligated to accept "refugees" who are almost uniformly young angry males, not families, and who uniformly want to impose their Sharia law in the west and not assimilate. Being against what the people in charge want puts you in the same situation as those who wanted to not go along with the Nazi movement which was fueled by Nazi propaganda.
So, yeah, this post has a great point, but pretty much the opposite one intended.
Also mob psychology is real. Like if people are shouting and crying and praying to this one guy who's got a crew and a logo and a promise of a better life, it's real hard to say no without possibly getting smacked up.
Isn't war fun?
Fascinating stuff, Hitler and his Reich. Probably why i chose my username.
Trump hasn't even been sworn in yet, and the "not my president" crybabies is arrayed against anything he might do--helpful or not--to improve the economy or tax situation. It's the same bunch who wanted Trump to swear that he'd accept the outcome of the election no matter what.
We're obligated to accept "refugees" who are almost uniformly young angry males, not families, and who uniformly want to impose their Sharia law in the west and not assimilate. Being against what the people in charge want puts you in the same situation as those who wanted to not go along with the Nazi movement which was fueled by Nazi propaganda.
So, yeah, this post has a great point, but pretty much the opposite one intended.