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In reply to the discussion: How would DU react to the 1930s and Hitler? [View all]sub.theory
(652 posts)Opinion would be as bitterly divided as now.
You'd have the German apologists explaining how it's really all America's fault for defeating Germany in The Great War, crippling their economy, and causing the German people such suffering. How America is the real aggressor in Europe for sending troops onto foreign soil. How the German people are just naturally opposing American imperialism and interference in their affairs. How Germany is no threat to the US, and we need to just leave them alone. That the threat of Germany is all propaganda so the US can conquer Germany. And so on and so forth.
Then you would have the crowd that sees the growing militarization of Germany coupled with it's increasingly bellicose rhetoric as a very ominous presence in the world. The sheer brutality shown to any and all opposing the Nazi government is another worrying sign. The sophistication and incredibly rapid build-up of the German war machine would suggest an enemy best confronted sooner rather than later. The Nazi ideology of Aryan superiority and the demonization of "inferior" races would seem to be an ideology demanding to be confronted too.
So, it would be much the same as now - deeply divided.
Of course, Germany hadn't vowed to drown us all in blood like ISIS has, nor was Germany openly engaging in ethnic and religious cleansing so it's really not the same thing at all.