also see Hitler's Circle of Evil

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4926474&forum_id=2#43151596)

i remember watching one speech where people were complaining about him banning Communists or something... and he was like I'm not singling out Communists -- I banned all other political parties

Democrats would LOVE to do this unfortunately they don't have half the backbone of Hitler

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4926474&forum_id=2#43151727)

He was like a mafia don. Night of the Long Knives was straight up mob hit shit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4926474&forum_id=2#43151746)

a lot more Russians and Germans died fighting

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4926474&forum_id=2#43156289)

smart dudes like Albert Einstein knew when they weren't wanted

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4926474&forum_id=2#43157019)

wow

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4926474&forum_id=2#43153871)

just adds to much texture to the general outline that we all know. never seen even 2% of these video clips

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4926474&forum_id=2#43153993)

but how did it go from this to sociopathic warmongering and mass murder?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4926474&forum_id=2#43157250)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_de_Gobineau

who's racial theories got a lot of play in Austria at that time. Hitler would read this stuff and it would make sense to him as he walked the streets of multi-ethnic Austria. Poles, Czechs, JEWS-- what the fuck are these people doing in a German state?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4926474&forum_id=2#43158479)

France yes, GB no. In fact the whole idea of Versailles as too punitive, etc. was trumpeted by British economists, including Keynes, I think. But you are basically right.

The other thing is that Hitler's appeal was not limited to lower middle class, ex-soldiers, etc. Once he became Chancellor, a lot of intellectuals and academics came on board. He was basically saying, the modern, capitalist system is rotten and it drags German people down into its rottenness. This kind of message-- that modern democracy and capitalism had led people down a path of degeneracy and drudgery-- had a lot of appeal to Germans of all classes.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4926474&forum_id=2#43158216)

Keynes didn't get it. Theory in the book I posted below is essentially that by the late 1800s GB was very concerned with German aspirations and sought to lay a trap. That led into the insane set up of the treaties before ww1. We look back like it was so obvious what was going to happen, but that was exactly the point. However, none of the war actually happened in Germany and their infrastructure went largely unscathed. So the anglos need a pretext to start another war, and we get this ridiculously punitive treaty of Versailles that everybody knew was impossible. But the point was for Germany to eventually lash out and this time the British wouldn't face up and Germany would be leveled. It's a great book with an amazing amount of detail. Very little time spent on the nazis but some interesting info on lodges that they grew out of. Lots of esoteric shot. Prof got fired for writing the book because it dared touch on you know what.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4926474&forum_id=2#43158389)

This is the classic book laying out his support:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00847CKFY/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i2

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4926474&forum_id=2#43158423)

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-hitler-nazi-fascism/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4926474&forum_id=2#43158511)

Hamilton devotes an entire chapter to what he terms “travelers and vacationers.” In the late 1920s and early ’30s, the Depression raged through war-scarred Germany. The country had seen the establishment of the eight-hour workday, and of unemployment insurance that was intended to cover three-quarters of a million unemployed workers. But the immediate effect of these measures was to make German manufacturing and industry less competitive with their counterparts in other European countries, and these worthy projects proved to be unsustainable in a country with an economy in free fall.

So when Hamilton decides to look closely at the votes of “travelers and vacationers,” what he is really examining is the votes of those who were well-enough off to be more or less completely untouched by the economic ruin all around them, who still took their usual vacations during July (when the first 1932 election occurred). And what he finds was that in the key elections of 1928, 1930, and 1932, these travelers gave two-thirds of their votes to Hitler.

Chillingly, Hamilton writes,

It is a point of some irony that the educated upper- and upper-middle-class populations, who react so enthusiastically to the claims of mass-society theories, should themselves have been the victims of a process that they, with such evident disdain, assume to be moving other people. In this case, it would appear that the demagogues, with some aid from the media, had considerable success in moving the upper- and upper-middle class masses.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4926474&forum_id=2#43158527)

Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset wrote that the typical Nazi voter was a ­middle-­class self-employed Protestant who lived on a farm or in a small community. By contrast, sociologist Richard F. Hamilton con­cluded that the upper classes (white-collar and self-employed Germans) were the bedrock of Nazi electoral ­support.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4926474&forum_id=2#43158541)

those probably cost less than a million to make

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4926474&forum_id=2#43157032)

I think the book is fair. Presents the facts. Tells you why Hitler had appeal. How he was able to achieve political power. I know xo has a certain "viewpoint" on Hitler, but, really, you can't expect to have a documentary on Hitler that is on Netflix that is going to say Hitler was a great dude! The reality is that he ended up being a disaster for Germany and, probably, the world. Fascinating topic though.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4926474&forum_id=2#43158348)