Did you study history at school?

A major reason for his election victory is because he instilled pride in the German people and gave them hope. Germany is blamed for starting WW1 but it's not that black and white. Anyhow, after WW1, France removed entire industrial plants from Germany and moved them to France. They occupied Germany and citizens had to defer to French soldiers in public in their own country. Women were violated without repercussions. They lost Alsace Lorraine in western Germany, which was 80% German. They were expelled from their homes without compensation and sent packing to Germany. They lost the Sudetenland in northern Czech, territory to Denmark, and lost territory (Polish Corridor /Silesia ) to Poland even though the people were ethnic Germans.

The dude that led Poland ( I forget his name ) was liquidating ethnic Germans in Poland prior to Germany's invasion. If I recall 60k were killed. For 100 years it was their home and they were safe, now they were outcasts and being killed by Poland as a result of WW1.

France also removed gold and silver possessed by the govt. Without precious metals and something to base their currency on, they had hyperinflation and we know how that turned out.

So, along comes Hitler. He gave them hope, he motivated them, he created the idea of Germans being a family and when he was arrested and spent 6 months in Jail, he became a folk hero. Unfortunately, he also had a lot of free time on his hands and Hitler and Hess wrote Mein Kampf, spelling out his ideas and foundation for National Socialism.

Don't get me wrong I am not a neo Nazi. But it's good to look at things objectively. The treaty of WW1 caused WW2. Winning is good, but you need to be reasonable about reparations and not be vindictive. Otherwise you sow the seeds for 'payback'. People don't forget.

I am very frightened we are seeing it happen again, now!

Yep

And some people believe Hitler was a socialist... lol

Let there be no mistake, Hitler and his nationalist ilk are Satan’s spawn. They are evil and preach to weak minded individuals hungry to be led and in search of scapegoats. They divide the population ,twist the truth and do it repetitively, condemn the free press, and always are doomed to fail in the end.

He was a frustrated fool and an abused traumatized teen who was overly loved by the momma and then had the shit beat out of him DAILY after a certain age by the poppa...all for NO reason. That stuff happened to MOST Germans around those days snd way before....very authoritarian society...

Then the failure in his dreams.

Ordinary sympathetic guy...so far.

Then he got USED to be the dirty-work main spokesman for the EVIL created by the whole developed world around that time. Power/subjegation. The old orders feeling their ground slipping. Ressentment at the cruelty and pointlessness of WWI...... Then there was Japan and China and all that. Economic systems we barely could understand at clash with one another...

The world was already too "developed" and WWI had given the lie to development and clashes in politics and no concept of how fragile this planet really is r: mere survival. The need for ecological understanding, systems understanding....

The point though was that he was just a guy who ended up getting USED with some cooperation from himself. It actually happens to most of us on some level.

Why did we lose our moral compass in the world, all you good people??? Ask yourselves that!!!

My class in high school was called Social Studies, we may have touched on Hitler. From what i've gleaned since, it was a time of turmoil, economical being a factor, resentment stemming from the outcome of the first world war, the treaty of Versailles, and stuff like that. Hitler, for all his faults was effective at speeches, slowly but surely gained a following. The final solution stuff as far as i gather wasn't unveiled explicitly till well into his rule, and being sent to camps was seen not as they really were.

Yes. I learned in my German History class. One project was a report on the Holocaust. At the time I had friends and neighbors whose parents or elderly family members were survivors, so some of them felt they knew me well enough to discuss things they’d witnessed. I also had another teacher, with whom I was close, who had been originally from Germany and whose older brothers had been Hitlerjugend. It was a source of shame for her. They all trusted me with the information, and I never betrayed them.
It was some really powerful stuff. It’s why I become so angry with “deniers”, because I’ve spoken to people who [b]lived[/b] through it. 😞

If interested, and it takes a huge effort, read Volker Ullrich's book entitled Hitler. It tells the story of his rise to power. He was a master at propaganda, with huge rallies, use of the media, condemning others as subhuman, claiming he was the victim. If that sound familiar, it scares the s--t out of me!

I side with Dallas cowboys fan. Hitler used the bitterness the German people had over WWI reparations to get his popularity and fulfill his hateful agenda.

Yes, yes, yes and yes. I had very advanced history classes. We learned history from all around the world in details.

I studied Britain in the Middle Ages "The Tudors & Stuarts" 1485 to 1714 AD looking back I would have preferred to study the twentieth century rather than the middle ages however both my Grandfather and Father served in those Two World Wars I know about the wars but not Hitler's rise to power he and his political party rose to power during the depression on the 1930s

I learned about the Voortrekkers in SA and discovered I loved reading about WW2 from tales I had been told from my grandparents generation

Yes. I miss have been napping occasionally in that class

We didn’t get to WW2 in school...

Who's that

Yes, a history major. Mein Kampf ..speeches..Yup.