It is clear, the Frankenstein Monster is trying to kill its creator.

[PatrickforB]

49. One of the favorite responses of right wing nut-jobs when the parallel with

Nazi Germany is brought up is, "Well, Hitler was a socialist. Nazis were national socialists!"

To your point, when Hitler began to get really powerful, he needed the German oligarchs on his side. So he got rid of the socialists, and gave over control of the economy to Krupp, IG Farben, etc.

Then, when he needed the Wehrmacht and the German Officer Corps on his side, he got rid of Rohm and some of the other SA elements, then absorbed the remainder of them either into the Army or the SS.

Ironically, both the oligarchs and the Officer Corps thought they could control Hitler. But they couldn't because Hitler also knew he needed a violent mob of true believers to take and keep power. Interestingly, if you look at testimonies of various SS personnel caught after the war, the rank and file were true believers. Himmler, Goering, Heydrich and other top Nazis also were true believers, but cynical also. Many who ran the camps were 'organization men' - people who did not care one way or the other about the human beings they were killing, but only about achieving maximum efficiency and volume at killing.

And then the rank and file Germans? They were the proverbial 'good people who did NOTHING.' My father, a WWII vet, was fond of saying that Hitler sold the German people a 'bill of goods.' Those who protested, such as our BLM, pro-choice, occupy Wall Street, and others, were removed from society - rounded up and sent to places like Bergen Belsen and Auschwitz where they could be murdered along with millions of slavic peoples, LGBTQ people, Romany people, individuals with disabilities, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Jews.

But did he really? Or were those rank and file Germans so fearful of the Nazis that even though they KNEW, or guessed, they were scared to stand up lest it happen to them.

Hitler was a cancer, corrupting everything that had been good and noble about Germany and its people.

Trump is a cancer, corrupting everything that has been good and noble about the United States.