“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
@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.
@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
@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.