When I was growing up, I heard lots of talk about Hitler. "How could anyone have listened to that madman rant and have believed what he said?" people would ask, shaking their heads sadly.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to KChernecky For Harris 2024 last edited by
@PeasLuvnJustice Thank you. Definitely heart-breaking.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to David Mitchell :CApride: last edited by
@DavidM_yeg I agree. And I have to ask myself in honesty if I'd have been as courageous as I like to think I would have been, as Hitler rose to power.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to W6KME last edited by
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to crazyeddie last edited by
@crazyeddie Perhaps because I grew up in the shadow of WWII, with my father and uncles not long having returned from that war when I was born, I heard a lot of talk about Hitler and the harm he had done to the world. My father could be fierce if he thought anyone was sympathizing in any way with the Nazis. For no reason at all, I once drew swastikas on a page in a school notebook — I was bored and drew them meaning nothing at all — and when he saw them, he went into a rage.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Piousunyn last edited by
@Piousunyn I suspect suspicion of those who are different may be wired into a lot of us, unfortunately. Education challenges us to be aware of and think about that suspicion, but a lot of us do not choose education for ourselves.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Fragarach last edited by
@Fragarach Thank you for that link. I look forward to reading. I love David Tennant.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Martin Vermeer FCD last edited by
@martinvermeer Perhaps. Even so, I don't take much comfort in thinking that a minority of Germans voted for Hitler or that Trump "won" the election in 2016 by a minority of votes. A rabid minority that knows how to work and rig a system can wreak great havoc.
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Matthew Loxtonreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
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xs4me2replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
It is the politics of the gut, materializing the resentment and jealousy with a reassuring focus of the hate to a scapegoat. These mechanisms never provide solutions…
Will we ever learn…And then there is the Machiavellian attitude of the tycoons, thinking they can contain it and use it for their benefit.
Who would have thought it can return so soon.
I hope the voter and some of the media will point to the right side of this crossroads…
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Angelika Wienertreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
You're right about business elites, about parts of the military etc..
But:
He hadn't the backing of the Catholic church.
In the suburb where I live Cardinal Graf von Galen preached against euthanasia and Nazi agents stood in the church (with hats and they didn't kneel, so everyone in the church knew who they were). With euthanasia started it in 1939 Aktion T4 T for Tiergartenstraße 4.
Saint Victor Dom, Xanten: graves of catholic martyrs of this time.
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teacher_rickreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy I am a history teacher; my parents were born in the interbellum and lived in the Netherlands during WWII (15 and 18 in 1940) ; we have all of their knowledge and memories - and I can’t understand why people still are so, so stupid, 100 years later.
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Dave Goldsmithreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
Trump taught me too that Hitler wasn't a uniquely German problem.
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66gardenersreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy
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floydgumpreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy In the name of greed some will sell their soul to Satan.
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KChernecky For Harris 2024replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy It makes me sad to know there are so many people in this world who are filled with such hate
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SoGeneris for Harris/Walzreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy Yes. To think it could never be us is to miss the point entirely.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to SoGeneris for Harris/Walz last edited by
@SoGeneris Precisely. And I'm astonished that when the parallel is so clear, many still want to quibble and miss the point with endless discussions of when fascism is "really" fascism, and whether it's Hitler or Mussolini or neither that Trump is like, and so on. Missing the point entirely….
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to KChernecky For Harris 2024 last edited by
@PeasLuvnJustice Me, too. Such a waste of energy tht could be used constructively.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to floydgump last edited by
@gumpfloyd For sure.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to 66gardeners last edited by
@66gardeners And, yet, in my experience, they almost never have any shame at all about their atrocious decision — and I suspect the same was true of the vast majority of those who supported Hitler in Germany.