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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Blaming it all on Hitler is a gigantic error - charismatic leader, yes - but none of the anti-Semitic ideas he espoused were made up by him. They were endemic throughout Europe, particularly (ironically) in Poland.
I'm not seriously defending the Nazi political ideals - I just like the design of their equipment best, and I like appalling people with my bad taste.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 17:33, 3 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
all our lot looked scruffy in comparison.
/gayest post of the day.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 17:37, Reply)
Hitler didn't have shit on the egyptions, for example.
It's not that Hitler was the _only_ cause of it, but I think the thing that doesn't sit well with me is that he _could_ have stopped it at any point.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 17:42, Reply)
He simply couldn't comprehend how the Germans could have been fairly beaten, so he seized upon Anti-Semitism and anti-commuism as a way of blaming 'weaklings' and 'traitors' within Germany for this failure.
Unifying the nation in blaming others for their military shortcomings - and the subsequent economic privations caused by the post-war settlement - gave ordinary Germans a way to deal with the shame they felt at losing WWI.
Bit pathetic, isn't it?
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 17:47, Reply)
Germany just ran out of cannon fodder and food first.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 17:48, Reply)
but his obsession with art and architecture was so strong that Albert Speer ended up in one of the most powerful positions in Nazi Germany and he was merely an architect. It's not fashionable to say so (unless you are that utter minge Bryan Ferry) but I confess to liking some of Speer's work, overblown and grandiose as it was. The guilt-ridden tearing-down of all Nazi buildings at the end of the war will, in time, I believe, be seen as a great shame and even a bit of a crime.
His subterranean base under Berlin would have been fucking incredible if it had been finished.
cf Ceaucescu's Palace in Bucharest - ideologically dodgy as fuck and built on the bodies of his citizens, but what an incredible building. It is IMMENSE.
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 17:56, Reply)
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