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In reply to the discussion: Twas a time when people wondered how an advanced nation like Germany allowed Hitler to become ruler [View all]luvtheGWN
(1,336 posts)Perhaps apocryphal, but apparently someone going to buy a loaf of bread had to take a wheelbarrow full of deutschemarks in order to pay for it. The Germans were desperate, and they were very aggrieved by the reparations the allies forced on them.
So it's little wonder that they had no trust in their government and would look for anyone who would bring them out of their misery. They were ripe for the picking, and of course Hitler had to provide them an enemy -- in this case it was the Jews who owned many big corporations and ran many of the big banks. They were also the "elites" -- doctors, lawyers, professors. Well educated folk.
Many people have noted that Trump -- just like Hitler -- picked supposed enemies that his followers could hate.
Straight out of Hitler's handbook.