Anti Semitism, and anti everything else that hitler was against... is as old as written record.
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.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 17:42, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

Hitler could not fucking believe that Germany lost WWI.
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?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 17:47, Reply)

Especially since nobody really "won" WWI
Germany just ran out of cannon fodder and food first.
( Kroney, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 17:48, Reply)

Fuck off, we did.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 17:49, Reply)

We kissed American bottom better.
Some victory.
( Kroney, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 17:50, Reply)

No Monty.
You died in a bunker and then went on to lose the war.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 17:50, Reply)

Oh yeah, sorry.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 18:00, Reply)

If only he got into Art School.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 17:49, Reply)

He wasn't very good, unfortunately,
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.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 17:56, Reply)