Azure9920 wrote:I couldn't really tell you whether or not a lot Germans were racist before Hitler started his Jew propaganda. However, I can tell you that fascism relies a lot on using a scapegoat in order to push for change, in this case he used the Jews to cover up his imperial motives.
true. i think mein kampf being a best seller in germany somewhat proved germans were a little conservative prior to the hitler takeover. in hitler's 1933 chancellor speech, he ended the speech saying, "german people give me four years......... i did it not for reward, i did it becuase you yourselves wanted it so."
Hitler was also a great orator, if that's what you're referring to. His speeches drew people from all over Germany, even before he was elected.
that is precisely what i mean't. i've seen some of his speeches before and i all i could say was wow at the end of them. i think this helped camaflouge his devious plans. not to mention it was mostly goebbels who ranted on about jews. not actually hitler himself. i have yet to hear hitler speak about jews on a public scale with the exception of his book of course.
Really?
yes. many people forget germany had the same problems that for example albania has now. they were a little mad about their current borders because ethnic germany was bigger than what was currently germany at the time.
He was a well known anti-semite. He published a lot of anti-Jewish literature as well. On the other hand, he was also opposed to war.
wow, this comes as a bit of a shock to me. the more i look into this whole "jews run the world" conspiracy, the more it seems these people are pretty much hated by many people on practically every level of society.
Well, they did share a common enemy after 1941. Britain was opposed to Germany from the beginning, whereas Russia was not. While in the end they did fight towards the same goal, it's obviously a little more in depth than that. Stalin approached both Roosevelt and Churchill prior to the war even beginning, offering Russian assistance in order to take out Hitler, but both were wary of his motives and turned his offer down.
hitler was foolish in his attempt to takeover russia. he didn't think much of england's army (which he was right in downsizing, they weren't much of a threat). but still, he should have known opening a war on two sides would be lethal and very risky.
my main confusion is that i would have thought england and america would have teamed up with hitler in removing communist nations from the world. the only possible motive for england and america teaming up with russia is that they feared hitler and mussolini and realized that if russia was taken out the picture, hitler would have no trouble taking over the world.