Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊“Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore." - AR Moxon
Martina Neumayer@brucelawson But most of historians are also forgetting about how easily are to manipulate people who are extremely poor, very hungry, totally disappointed and left alone by those who should be helping them in such particular heavy time. That's why nsdap was so successful and get so popular back in the days. Due to the american stock market crash, great depression and all the effects of them that happened later to the entire world. Nothing much, than simple crowd psychology, as we call it today.
@brucelawson 2/n Their motives were most important one things in the whole story. The power of force of people who are literally pushed to the edges is unimaginable. And that's exactly what idiots like Goebbels, Göring and the rest exploited. Hitler was just their puppet, a pawn in this whole filthy political power game. A pawn that was also, by design and from the very beginning, doomed to failure. That's why they achieved their goal so easily and quickly. Due the poverty and anger of people.
Amro has been@MartinaNeumayer @brucelawson
The poverty and anger of people may be used as an excuse, but I don't get it.
There were radical socialist and communist parties that offered a solution to that.
But they chose not to attack the rich, the establishment but to join in fighting their own, even lesser off people.
They chose nazi
The poverty and anger of people may be used as an excuse, but I don't get it.
There were radical socialist and communist parties that offered a solution to that.
But they chose not to attack the rich, the establishment but to join in fighting their own, even lesser off people.
They chose nazi
@amro It isn't any excuse and there wasn't solution for something that happened far away on the other continent. People living back in those years in Germany doesn't cared about where food comes from, coal for heating their homes and what they are manufacturing in the factories they worked in. Same was everywhere else, especially in Europe. People wanted to have food, warmth for the winter, some clothes, and a place to work. No one had any clue that factories were making things for another war.
@amro 2/n I remember exactly what my parents and grandparents have been told us at home about those scary times. They lived there in those times. There was no choice. Back then was only: "you're with us or against us. Nothing else. Nobody cared what political parties were, what they said, what they planned, etc. People were only interested in whether they would survive another day, week, month. Whether they would somehow survive this nightmare they already had due the depression from America.
@amro 3/n To all this add the already very unstable situation which continued from the first world war. Circa twenty years only is definitely too little time to stabilize enough the overall tragic situation in the affected with it countries and societies. And on top of all that came the idiots who came up with the idea of creating the nsdap. Everything later was just a continuity of events that no one could stop. Like a running train without any breaks. It's only a matter of time to disaster.
@MartinaNeumayer
I don't want to deny your family's history, but I strongly disagree.
I can't find the energy to dive into the period between the American depression and the takeover by the ndsap of the parliament, but the main reason of their success seems to be the inability of center right and center left political parties to support the opposition by anti-fascist resistance which were largely labor- and street movements.
My neighbors don't vote right-winged fascists hate-mongors because they actually are hungry or downtrodden. They vote for them because they want to blame someone, anyone for the fact they will never get the big payday hyper- capitalism has promised. But if they blame the people actually responsible, the oligarchists, the share holders, they have to admit they will never will become them.
And the cops? The cops chose to support the fascists rights of assembly like they always will. Even today.
Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC@MartinaNeumayer @brucelawson The bulk of the NSDAP came from the middle class, Kleinbürgertum. People who weren't poor but weren't rich, either, who hated the Jews because they had always hated the Jews, who were disgusted by all the "perverts" living their lives out in the open all of a sudden in big cities, especially Berlin, and who were worried they could lose what little wealth they had and join the ranks of the poor like so many others.
Kevin Karhan 
@LordCaramac @MartinaNeumayer @brucelawson nodds in agreement
Whereas #workers were well entrenched in #SPD & #KPD instead.