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The building in the vicinity of Nuremberg, even after more than 70-80 year is mighty symbols of the nazi-germany parade ground - and is loaded with history - Here Hitler played his game, to make Germany the most mighty power in Europe and to plunge Germany out in a war who devastated most of Europe, and killed off more than 50 million civilians and military.. And destroyed Germany who had to be rebuild from more or less scratch...
And what Hitler did to germany - and most of Europe, was so devastating, that books about it is pouring up, more than 80 year after i all happened - and will possible go on, to be written about as long as it exist archives and people willing to write about it...
It is many reasons why germany in the years between the wars, ended up in the hand of Hitler.. Most of it is clearly because economical hardship - even in 1932, the year before Hitler finally got power, Dr Gobbles, the propaganda Minister in his diary - who for the most part survived the war, and give a mirror into the concept of nazism under Hitler. bluntly told that it looked bleak to take the power - legally as almost hopeless, as the bank was on the brink of going broke - the big bank rollers of the nazi-party, big industry and banks, was not willing to spend more money on NSDAP... It was mostly the ability to Hitler, to speak to the industry leaders, who turned that tide - and they was suddenly willing to bankroll NSDAP for the last time - even if Germany was on the brink of economical chaos - Germany of the early 1930s was a minefield of economical disasters - and the support of the Wiemar Republic, was on the lowest when Hitler got "elected" the german chancellor of Germany - the next year he managed to combine the idea of the German Presidents office - and the office of the chancler - and combined it to the office of Fuhrer... And he used the next 12 year, to build germany up to the biggest powers in Europe - dominating most of the continent - and then it all ended up in a horrible ruin, murdering of millions of totally innocent people who had not doing any crime.. Just because they was who they was...
But Germany and Europe learned how not to do it - at least to today.. When they do the same as they did then - slashing programs, specially for the poor and they who have not a voice.. Someone tend to talk to Ms Mercel about how the generation before her, was angry about the austerity who propelled Hitler into power - even though it had been possible to stop him in his tracks, up to mid 1932 at least... Everyone who had read Main Kampf, the "bible" of nazi ideology, understood that Hitler wanted to dominate and conquering Europe - not to make peace on even terms... But very few did read the book, and therefore Hitler could do as he wanted - all until 1939, when he was kind of crossing the Rubicon river - when he was starting the war against Poland... And therefore also started World War Two.. Our King Haakon the 7th was one of the few who have been told to had read the book from front to back - and the book was discovered a couple of years back in the royal library when they was renovating the building from top to bottom. And it had some interesting writing here and there, as the King had being reading the book...
The Wiemar Republic, and the interlope between the two Wars is maybe not good known by the people at large, even though it SHOULD be that...Hitlers success in the years between the wars should be touth in schools, in general History - as it is a school example why some manage to climb to power using the anger of the many, who feel they have been punished for something they had no reason to be punished for... (Aka the end of world war one, where germany got the fault for starting the war - and pay the other nations a big compensations for the war damages... Hitler was not willing to pay for it - and the great powers in Europe was just letting it goes by - and mostly because he was able to put "the working man" where he belong - under tight scrutiny from the government - powerless and without a voice in the matter of politics
AS the GOP of today want the "working man", or the commoners to be also in the US... Facism is facism, and the GOP of today, is dam close to facism, if they not even crossed into facism all togheter
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