"I am not an expert on Hitler.
But my father is.
He toured post-war Germany extensively in 1957 and ’58 as a child performer. And he often recounts the stories.
He befriended teenage Lebensborn children (if you don’t know what Lebensborn children are …well …before you post anymore about Hitler you should read about them).
He visited an SS widow and got a peek at her husband’s uniform and Luger (that he’d committed suicide with), she had stored in an old trunk, in the attic.These and other intense experiences in Germany sent my father on a life-long quest to understand this sociopath (Hitler) and the country that allowed itself to be dragged into one of the darkest chapters in world history.
My dad is a Hitler/Nazi buff the way Indiana Jones’ dad was a Holy Grail buff.
...But the truth about Nazis isn’t funny at all. It’s bloody and horrible and gut churning.
And it involves machine guns and butchery and inhumanity on a scale that takes your breath away.
Nobody is really a “soup Nazi” …unless they served it in a concentration camp.
The idea of comparing an American president to Hitler is just as absurd …from any angle, in any context.
The American system ITSELF pretty much prevents “Hitlers” from showing up.
And America ITSELF is anathema to what Hitler was trying to create.
An American ANYTHING or ANYONE is hard to fit into the Hitler model. It’s just not apples to apples.
There are some fundamental things to understand about Hitler:
1. He took over a small, failing state that didn’t have separated government, enumerated powers or checks and balances. It’s difficult for a guy like that to show up here, in this system.
2. His entire political career was violent from the beginning. There was always death in his wake. He didn’t just suddenly “turn” violent. It was a pattern …as it always is with sociopaths. This is THE most important thing to watch; the violence. I always keep an eye on who is rioting …breaking things …throwing rocks and bombs. It doesn’t make them Nazis. But it signals how far they’re willing to go.
3. He entered office with his own personal military construct (the SS) with allegiance to him ONLY. They would carry out things the regular military would never carry out: i.e. the murder of private citizens and political opponents. Nothing like that exists or COULD exist in America. We simply wouldn’t allow it.
4. He didn’t start out just killing Jews. He started out euthanizing people with special needs …for the betterment of the care-givers’ lives. (You can decide which side of the aisle favors the extermination of “inconvenient” people).
5. He disarmed the population, then nationalized healthcare and education. (Two-out-of-three of those are Bernie Sanders moves …But, guess what? Bernie isn’t Hitler either …not by a long shot)
The list goes on and on.
But the deal is this:
Hitler was a real life murdering sociopath.
He wasn’t just a charismatic speaker who incrementally fell into bad behavior.
He wasn’t just a racist corrupted by unfettered power. In other words, you or I probably couldn’t end up being Hitler.
A garden variety KKK leader probably couldn’t end up being Hitler either …or a community organizer …or a New York real-estate tycoon.
It’s not that easy or simple.
NONE of our American presidents have ever been Hitler.
But the people of Germany certainly thought FDR was a murdering dictator when B-17s started dropping bombs on them..."
READ ON!!
...But the truth about Nazis isn’t funny at all. It’s bloody and horrible and gut churning.
And it involves machine guns and butchery and inhumanity on a scale that takes your breath away.
Nobody is really a “soup Nazi” …unless they served it in a concentration camp.
The idea of comparing an American president to Hitler is just as absurd …from any angle, in any context.
The American system ITSELF pretty much prevents “Hitlers” from showing up.
And America ITSELF is anathema to what Hitler was trying to create.
An American ANYTHING or ANYONE is hard to fit into the Hitler model. It’s just not apples to apples.
There are some fundamental things to understand about Hitler:
1. He took over a small, failing state that didn’t have separated government, enumerated powers or checks and balances. It’s difficult for a guy like that to show up here, in this system.
2. His entire political career was violent from the beginning. There was always death in his wake. He didn’t just suddenly “turn” violent. It was a pattern …as it always is with sociopaths. This is THE most important thing to watch; the violence. I always keep an eye on who is rioting …breaking things …throwing rocks and bombs. It doesn’t make them Nazis. But it signals how far they’re willing to go.
3. He entered office with his own personal military construct (the SS) with allegiance to him ONLY. They would carry out things the regular military would never carry out: i.e. the murder of private citizens and political opponents. Nothing like that exists or COULD exist in America. We simply wouldn’t allow it.
4. He didn’t start out just killing Jews. He started out euthanizing people with special needs …for the betterment of the care-givers’ lives. (You can decide which side of the aisle favors the extermination of “inconvenient” people).
5. He disarmed the population, then nationalized healthcare and education. (Two-out-of-three of those are Bernie Sanders moves …But, guess what? Bernie isn’t Hitler either …not by a long shot)
The list goes on and on.
But the deal is this:
Hitler was a real life murdering sociopath.
He wasn’t just a charismatic speaker who incrementally fell into bad behavior.
He wasn’t just a racist corrupted by unfettered power. In other words, you or I probably couldn’t end up being Hitler.
A garden variety KKK leader probably couldn’t end up being Hitler either …or a community organizer …or a New York real-estate tycoon.
It’s not that easy or simple.
NONE of our American presidents have ever been Hitler.
But the people of Germany certainly thought FDR was a murdering dictator when B-17s started dropping bombs on them..."
READ ON!!
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