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Rainbow Droid

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Mon Feb 17, 2020, 10:08 AM Feb 2020

An incredibly salient quote from the very end of the final volume of a 3 book series on Nazi Germany [View all]

From Richard J Evans, "The Third Reich at War", Page 762 of 764:

... when elderly Germans came towards the end of the century to look back on the Third Reich and ask themselves why they had supported it, they could no longer remember that one of the main reasons had been because they had thought that it made Germany great again.


Published in 2008.

I highly recommend all three volumes. I've spent my life studying Weimar Germany and the Third Reich and this set has got to be the best, overall, that I've ever read, and at this point I've read all three volumes many times over the years. That quote just keeps coming back to me. Over, and over, and over.
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😳 secondwind Feb 2020 #1
Edited quote for clarity... KewlKat Feb 2020 #2
+10000000 Pachamama Feb 2020 #5
I would suggest another edit: Disaffected Feb 2020 #34
Fair enough...thanks for the suggestion KewlKat Feb 2020 #38
Just finished reading this a couple months ago. earthside Feb 2020 #3
It's happening as we write. lark Feb 2020 #4
They won't wail Cosmocat Feb 2020 #8
I don't know about that. lark Feb 2020 #11
I've been aboard the "when Trump does X they'll see how bad he is" train for a long time. Girard442 Feb 2020 #32
This. Fox News will go on and on about how the Dems screwed it up Captain Zero Feb 2020 #12
Trump keeps I_UndergroundPanther Feb 2020 #9
"I've spent my life studying Weimar Germany and the Third Reich" Me too! I used to live in Kitzingen uponit7771 Feb 2020 #6
Yes how in the world? triron Feb 2020 #17
My late MIL was Viennese. She said Germans were known for their science, culture, and literature... Hekate Feb 2020 #29
I believe similar is happening at the border in regards to trust; people just trust the US and don't uponit7771 Feb 2020 #36
Evans' Third Reich trilogy and Kershaw's Hitler biography are probably the definitive works Azathoth Feb 2020 #7
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Disaffected Feb 2020 #35
Rise and Fall is a classic Azathoth Feb 2020 #39
Yes, one of the best I've read (on any topic), Disaffected Feb 2020 #40
Nationalism is tribal. BSdetect Feb 2020 #10
The truth revealed bucolic_frolic Feb 2020 #13
I have these books gembaby1 Feb 2020 #14
Nationalism is just tribalism on a grander scale. What Albert Einstein said was a the major threat. olegramps Feb 2020 #15
Holy shit Joinfortmill Feb 2020 #16
We've twisted things to the point you can no longer point out a truth Johnny2X2X Feb 2020 #18
IF45 pumps up the 2nd tier of the economy to get votes from the poor tier. ancianita Feb 2020 #22
During the Senate "trial" kairos12 Feb 2020 #19
I've said before that "MAGA" is the new "Seig Heil" nt coti Feb 2020 #20
Also, they were in the mode of "keep calm and carry on." ancianita Feb 2020 #21
This deserved a graphic BadGimp Feb 2020 #23
Dejavu KewlKat Feb 2020 #24
I read the first two. Haven't read the third one yet because raccoon Feb 2020 #25
Just out of curiosity ... if they themselves couldn't remember that's what they thought ... mr_lebowski Feb 2020 #26
Probably contemporaneous accounts from newspapers, journals, and interviews of the 1930s-'40s... Hekate Feb 2020 #30
That method would not prove the assertion being made unless they were interviews with the mr_lebowski Feb 2020 #31
The quote is marked with notation 277, and when referenced will be found to read: Rainbow Droid Feb 2020 #33
That generation of Germans gibraltar72 Feb 2020 #27
Excellent books Cartoonist Feb 2020 #28
Big difference, though DFW Feb 2020 #37
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