I guess that's another reason to hate Germany
Someone said this to me awhile ago and its been on my mind since;
it was something along the line of quote:
"I hate Germany cause of Hitler and all of them."
The ignorance of this bothered me for along time, sure there were about ten thousands Nazi's but most of the German people just wanted to live their lives, and Hitler came to power from a general election however, the result was only 33.1% for the NSDAP in that election. Only 71.1% of the eligible voters voted in that election in November 1932. That reduced the share to 23.5%.
I'm not praising Hitler or anything but he did take a shattered state in 1933 that was blamed for a war it didn't cause (The Great War) which was the biggest war in history at that time, but Hitler eliminated all opposition, made himself a powerful dictator and making the growing super power that was Germany a totalitarian state trying to Nazify everybody.
As a totalitarian state there were ways to stop people from starting a revolution or uprising against the Nazi's, a simple population surveillance, this was called the Blockwart (officially Blockleiter); one spy/contact person for about 40-60 households (about 170 individuals in average).
The system was very extremely effective.
The scary truth about fascism also is it's the most powerful form of government ever seen in history, the effects the Nazi's had fighting on the Eastern Front was proven by the fact that the Soviet forces had to withdraw nearly as far as Moscow scorching their own land, destroying their farms and factories to try and slow down the massive Nazi advance, Stalin's war of annihilation against Hitler showed both sides fighting a total war anyone who could hold a gun in Russia's case sent to fight.
The people of Germany suffered mightily during the Second World War on the hands of Stalin and the Allies, for instance what about the firebombing of Dresden by the RAF in early 1945, most of the city burned and over 40,000 people burned alive with it, most of them just civilians, where is the morality in that?
As if that wasn't enough the German people were to suffer for along time more, especially those in the east sector of Germany in the early post war years, hundreds of women who possibly had their husbands or sons killed fighting in the Eastern Front were raped by the occupying Red Army in the mid to late 1940's!
Also after Berlin was divided between West Germany and East Germany the inevitable World War III between the Allies and the Soviet Union would have resulted in the Germans being forced to kill each other before most probably have millions killed as the result of, American, British, French and Soviet nukes!
It would have been the mother of all suffering for one nationality in the 20th century but luckily it was never that bad.
What sickens me is with all this obvious evidence people can still say they hate Germany because of Hitler!
it was something along the line of quote:
"I hate Germany cause of Hitler and all of them."
The ignorance of this bothered me for along time, sure there were about ten thousands Nazi's but most of the German people just wanted to live their lives, and Hitler came to power from a general election however, the result was only 33.1% for the NSDAP in that election. Only 71.1% of the eligible voters voted in that election in November 1932. That reduced the share to 23.5%.
I'm not praising Hitler or anything but he did take a shattered state in 1933 that was blamed for a war it didn't cause (The Great War) which was the biggest war in history at that time, but Hitler eliminated all opposition, made himself a powerful dictator and making the growing super power that was Germany a totalitarian state trying to Nazify everybody.
As a totalitarian state there were ways to stop people from starting a revolution or uprising against the Nazi's, a simple population surveillance, this was called the Blockwart (officially Blockleiter); one spy/contact person for about 40-60 households (about 170 individuals in average).
The system was very extremely effective.
The scary truth about fascism also is it's the most powerful form of government ever seen in history, the effects the Nazi's had fighting on the Eastern Front was proven by the fact that the Soviet forces had to withdraw nearly as far as Moscow scorching their own land, destroying their farms and factories to try and slow down the massive Nazi advance, Stalin's war of annihilation against Hitler showed both sides fighting a total war anyone who could hold a gun in Russia's case sent to fight.
The people of Germany suffered mightily during the Second World War on the hands of Stalin and the Allies, for instance what about the firebombing of Dresden by the RAF in early 1945, most of the city burned and over 40,000 people burned alive with it, most of them just civilians, where is the morality in that?
As if that wasn't enough the German people were to suffer for along time more, especially those in the east sector of Germany in the early post war years, hundreds of women who possibly had their husbands or sons killed fighting in the Eastern Front were raped by the occupying Red Army in the mid to late 1940's!
Also after Berlin was divided between West Germany and East Germany the inevitable World War III between the Allies and the Soviet Union would have resulted in the Germans being forced to kill each other before most probably have millions killed as the result of, American, British, French and Soviet nukes!
It would have been the mother of all suffering for one nationality in the 20th century but luckily it was never that bad.
What sickens me is with all this obvious evidence people can still say they hate Germany because of Hitler!
Labels: cold war, nazi germany, world war II
posted by Paul Iddon @ 3:51 PM
3 Comments:
At June 14, 2009 4:49 PM ,
Anonymous said...
Look up the phrase "good German"
You will find it is a sarcastic reference of blame associated with doing nothing, standing idle while bad things occur even though you know the reality and in many cases denying the reality.
I agree though, people should forgive and forget. The current generation had nothing to do with it.
I suppose all those people that still hate Germany because of Hitler they too could be called "Good Germans"
At June 21, 2009 11:09 AM ,
gypsy_king said...
You got it all wrong! That's how a lot of people like to paint it, like Hitler and the nazis took over germany, and people just walked along. No. They were elected and broadly supported for a reason: to improve the german people's standard of living; just like we like to drive our own car at the cost of some foreigns countries being poor. Also, the fear of Stalin. The jew problem. Economy crisis.
There reason "people still hate Germany today" is to show off how nice our governments are doing things compared to Nazi Germany, while it's essentially the same, but not that obviously evil.
At July 28, 2009 5:49 PM ,
Anonymous said...
I didn't know voter turnout was over 70%. That's relatively high compared to most national elections.
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