WWII question

[piece-itpete]

I can think of many appropriate things to call them, for sure.

Pete

[piece-itpete]

Well that escalated quickly

And a rare mistake on my part It WASN"T Shirer, it was Konrad Heiden. Feel free to beat me brutally. As I have only read one of his books it MUST be at least mentioned in: 'Der Führer – Hitler's Rise to Power'.

But he said it elsewhere apparently, here's a quote: "... thousands of youthful, ex-Army officers were streaming back from defeat to poverty and unemployment in the Weimar Republic. They were "armed intellectuals," war-hardened products of Germany's prewar universities. They became an army of the armed bohemians, of heroes and murderers by conviction. ..."

http://harpercrusade.blogspot.com/20...ued-armed.html

Pete

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Well that escalated quickly

And a rare mistake on my part It WASN"T Shirer, it was Konrad Heiden. Feel free to beat me brutally. As I have only read one of his books it MUST be at least mentioned in: 'Der Führer – Hitler's Rise to Power'.

But he said it elsewhere apparently, here's a quote: "... thousands of youthful, ex-Army officers were streaming back from defeat to poverty and unemployment in the Weimar Republic. They were "armed intellectuals," war-hardened products of Germany's prewar universities. They became an army of the armed bohemians, of heroes and murderers by conviction. ..."

http://harpercrusade.blogspot.com/20...ued-armed.html

Pete

Sounds like a description of some members of the 'freikorps' militia-type units that were active immediately after WWI. They provided models for the SA. Some we rightwing, some were leftwing. None were Nazi, as the nazis didn't exist yet.

[nailer]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Sounds like a description of some members of the 'freikorps' militia-type units that were active immediately after WWI. They provided models for the SA. Some we rightwing, some were leftwing. None were Nazi, as the nazis didn't exist yet.

Max touches on this.

[piece-itpete]

Read more of it.

In many ways Nazis were progressive run amok. They enforced a few theories well liked at the time.

Pete

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Read more of it.

In many ways Nazis were progressive run amok. They enforced a few theories well liked at the time.

Pete

Now you've done it...You leave Teddy Roosevelt out of it.!

[Dondilion]

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[finnbow]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Read more of it.

In many ways Nazis were progressive run amok. They enforced a few theories well liked at the time.

Pete

The Nazis were the Teabaggers of the day, only better dressed. They were successful at the time because of economic desperation and a culture that respects authority far more than ours. They bought into the same sort of demagoguery as is spewed daily on talk radio and Faux.

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Read more of it.

In many ways Nazis were progressive run amok. They enforced a few theories well liked at the time.

Pete

Kindly expand and distill.

[nailer]

The Nazis were far more than our poor abused Baggers. Such a comparison diminishes what the Nazis did while demonizing the Baggers.