If it talks like a Hitler and walks like a Hitler …

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16. Actually, it kinda was. I gather you haven't read mein kampf

Hitler was elected in 1933. Mein Kampf was first published in 1925. Now the citizenry may well have thought he was using hyperbole in Mein Kampf, but he was pretty fucking clear about advocating genocide.

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Historian Ian Kershaw points out that several passages in Mein Kampf are undeniably of a genocidal nature.[10] Hitler wrote "the nationalization of our masses will succeed only when, aside from all the positive struggle for the soul of our people, their international poisoners are exterminated"[11] and in another passage he suggested that "If at the beginning of the war and during the war twelve or fifteen thousand of these Hebrew corrupters of the nation had been subjected to poison gas, such as had to be endured in the field by hundreds of thousands of our very best German workers of all classes and professions, then the sacrifice of millions at the front would not have been in vain."[12]

The racial laws to which Hitler referred resonate directly with his ideas in Mein Kampf. In his first edition of Mein Kampf, Hitler stated that the destruction of the weak and sick is far more humane than their protection. Apart from his allusion to humane treatment, Hitler saw a purpose in destroying "the weak" in order to provide the proper space and purity for the "strong".[13]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein_Kampf#Antisemitism