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Deleuze
United Kingdom2102 Posts
On January 04 2014 08:32 hypercube wrote: I expected an answer to the mystery of the missing testicle. Must say I'm a little disappointed. It's in the Albert Hall. | ||
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enord
France258 Posts
my goal is not to disparage people trying, but your disheartning lack of objective, the presence of too many holes in your post and your overbearing (perhaps unknowingly) subjectiveness is frightening no subject is wrong, but you chose hitler as if it is an objective in as of itself i had the fortune or missfortune to cover nazism and fascism in the last centuries 4 times in 3 years when i was 15 to 18 (taught by french and british teachers) and i see too many holes in your op for it to be the bases of anything worthwhile you are bored and think you will be "entertained" by this, and to this i object (not that it will do anything, but whatever good is done is done) no, your post is not wrong on so many counts that it is aweful, or missing that many things that it does not stem acolade from people, ..but your stance is non existent too many "troll" posts from you on tl could have shaped my vision, but not to this extent I could and i possibly will quote correct/fill some of the holes and most vitaly point out where your subjectiveness bores on lazyness or subconcious dimwittingness in your op, but as i typed earlier, the amount of work and motivation required is beyond my time frame (your op, the responses...) the attitude you have (on tl and on this post) is akin to a bored teen aging, and i don't foresee any good things coming out of your rebutal posts to make my enthusiasm/patience grow any more than what i have typed here one thing may come out of this: you rereading your op and trying to figure where your lack of objectiveness is too much for yourself to bare on a lighter note, do hope you get well and resume out of bed life | ||
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enord
France258 Posts
as surmised your objective is to have fun on a ill chosen topic i am not guilty of what you accuse me of, and banning me from posting in your thread after insulting me makes my point for me i could care less, however, YOU stated : "Disclaimer: This blog contains high levels of Hitler. My intention here isn't to offend anyone or to "troll", but when one talks about Hitler, one needs to do a disclaimer and say "I ain't about that nazi shit, and I'm just reportin' the facts". " you are delusionnal in thinking that, and leaving said post uncorrected is a bad thing, a sign of weaknessn bread from lazyness your post is about half truths meant for a meager self serving pleasure trip this is the opposite of journalism those are not facts, but only a subjective choice with mistakes bloated on top the only word you are right on is "just" you are just a kid and just a little short | ||
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UmberBane
Germany5450 Posts
On January 04 2014 12:28 L_Master wrote: Nukes may have presented a problem, though I don't know to what extent Germany was developing and pursing that avenue of research. Well, those Jewish/German/European scientists who later worked on the atomic bomb were forced to flee from Europe... tough luck, Hitler.  It's interesting that Oppenheimer, while born in America, was of German/Jewish heritage, too. | ||
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farvacola
United States18815 Posts
On January 04 2014 15:58 AnachronisticAnarchy wrote: What a completely worthless, inflammatory response. Instead of bothering to explain your views or say anything that matters at all, you say that he is wrong and a nazi. Really? What a completely worthless, inflammatory response. I explained it very clearly, and did not call him a nazi, but I'll digress in the hopes that your panties untwist themselves. One of the key components of a working fascist ideology revolves around the concept of pseudo-historical destiny, or the idea that a society's success in some way hinges on it being able to follow a path determined by blood identity, community, and some form of idealized, pre-established outcome. Racial purity is one facet of this pre-formed goal, as is the nonsense idea that a Hitler conquered world would somehow fall into harmony. By asking a "what if" question alongside an established outcome ("seems like there would be a lot of unity"), it stops being a "what if" and becomes a "what if this specifically had happened", which is then aptly responded to with "no, that's stupid, such a question feeds directly into fascist ideology". You must realize that those who responded to those questions as I did circa 1936 were either killed, sent away, or threatened (if Aryan) until they promised to never challenge such an "obvious" Nazi destiny again. So yeah, any time someone puts on wishful nazi goggles, it is appropriate to smack them off their head, as we can all clearly see what happens when no one will. | ||
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ninazerg
United States7291 Posts
On January 04 2014 21:07 enord wrote: I could and i possibly will quote correct/fill some of the holes and most vitaly point out where your subjectiveness bores on lazyness or subconcious dimwittingness in your op, but as i typed earlier, the amount of work and motivation required is beyond my time frame (your op, the responses...) the attitude you have (on tl and on this post) is akin to a bored teen aging, and i don't foresee any good things coming out of your rebutal posts to make my enthusiasm/patience grow any more than what i have typed here Well, that's always a good way to start a conversation... I actually have friends on Teamliquid and from other places who are French and are German, and have read this. They've actually said "Hey, you mixed this up" or "You messed this part up" or "You forgot this". Probably the worst part of my post is defining Nazism, Fascism, and Socialism as political and economic entities, because it's kind of vague. This, however, is not a research paper, and I'm not teaching a history class. However, to be perfectly honest, pretty much everything you've claimed about me applies directly to you. No matter what I reply with, you're going to say I'm wrong, because you've already decided that I am arrogant and immature. The essence of your post is "I think you are wrong about your definitions of Nazism and Fascism, but I'm not going to tell you why, because I don't have the time to deal with you." Additionally, if you did write a response, I would almost certainly cringe at the content of such a post because your style of writing is virtually unreadable. | ||
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Monsen
Germany2548 Posts
On January 04 2014 23:58 farvacola wrote: What a completely worthless, inflammatory response. I explained it very clearly, and did not call him a nazi, but I'll digress in the hopes that your panties untwist themselves. One of the key components of a working fascist ideology revolves around the concept of pseudo-historical destiny, or the idea that a society's success in some way hinges on it being able to follow a path determined by blood identity, community, and some form of idealized, pre-established outcome. Racial purity is one facet of this pre-formed goal, as is the nonsense idea that a Hitler conquered world would somehow fall into harmony. By asking a "what if" question alongside an established outcome ("seems like there would be a lot of unity"), it stops being a "what if" and becomes a "what if this specifically had happened", which is then aptly responded to with "no, that's stupid, such a question feeds directly into fascist ideology". You must realize that those who responded to those questions as I did circa 1936 were either killed, sent away, or threatened (if Aryan) until they promised to never challenge such an "obvious" Nazi destiny again. So yeah, any time someone puts on wishful nazi goggles, it is appropriate to smack them off their head, as we can all clearly see what happens when no one will. Sorry buddy, it doesn't matter in what or how many words you pack it- it remains an asshole response as you've been told by several different people already. | ||
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farvacola
United States18815 Posts
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ninazerg
United States7291 Posts
On January 05 2014 00:59 farvacola wrote: Actually, scratch that, I am an asshole. That's sort of the point. I just want to throw this out there - but I think you might be literally worse than Hitler. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/DcWd9Lq.gif) Jigglypuff Esportz Volume 3 A collaboration between a spiteful German and a mentally unstable American, what could go wrong Letter from the Editor Rejoice, children of Aiur, for GGE #ggesports #esports #cuteandcuddly #reincarnation has returned. Like eSports, the e-magazine died from a lack of prize money, but through the sales of some delicious lemonade, we managed to scrape together enough prize money to inspire our writers to work again. Of course, they don't get any of the money. Sziky gets it all. But it's there to get them excited. Still most of the former writers have switched from writing to Hearthstone, which they feel is more casual than writing even though it's totally pay-to-win. Don't worry, though, we got MaxTerran and LuigiKart back. Helen never left. She stayed around the office just to spite me personally even though I told her she was fired. She is the worst. Simply the worst. I wish she would just fall over and die. Helen, if you're reading this, please, for the love of God, just drop dead. Stop living. Stop it. Keel over, bitch. Nobody wants to hear you complain about the weather, because in the winter, it's always "Way too cold" and in the summer it's always "Way too hot", and nobody wants to hear about your cat puked on an autographed picture that you clearly made yourself. And certainly nobody trusts you to make them coffee because you probably spike it with cyanide. I hate you, Helen. Please leave the office, or I will call the police. Uh, so, that was awkward. I'm sorry you all had to see that. But anyhow, the world of eSports has been volatile from day 1, and we have teams/leagues disbanding left and right like a wizrad, and so this issue of GGE is dedicated to saving eSports. We can do this guys. We just need to hack into Blizzard's network and recode their games to meet the specifications we're asking for, however, to do this, we need a lot of money. Now, I have never accepted money from strangers in my life, and when my boss gave me my first paycheck at work, I told him to go shove the Pyramids of Giza up his butthole, but if super-kawaii azn gurlzzz :3 who are in Gold League can ask for money, so can we. We have a model that we follow here: if it's cute, it must be right. Cuteness is our creed, it's in our blood and sweat. So if someone cute was cooking crystal meth, we'd totally do that! ^_^ However, back to the money thing. So, we know this hacker. He lives in Romania and we have confirmed that he is neither a vampire or a gypsy, but he wants $50,000 dollars for the hax we need to save eSports from Blizzrad. We, however, have a plan: If 1,000 people each buy one hockey card for 10 dollars each, and then sell it for 20 dollars each, that's like 90,000 dollars. We can totally do this, guys! This plan is flawless!!! So, cuddle up with your reaver (unless you play SC2, then cuddle up with your adorable Colossus or whatever), grab a mug of hot cocoa mixed with vodka, put on your favorite pair of pink bunny slippers, turn off that damn noise you kids call 'music', put "TV" in your twitch ID, and get ready for the most best issue of GGE, because this one will make your head fucking explode! Protoss is fucking imbalanced By MaxTerran Fuck Protoss. I just want to make this clear: fuck Protoss. They get a fucking mothershit core, and if you try to harass, they can just put up force fields, and if you do drops, guess what? They just warp in units right next to your drop, so all you can do is do a macro game where they just form a death ball of storms and colossus and you have to micro perfectly and still lose anyhow, so fuck you, Protoss fuckers. Fuck you. All they do is do 1a, then leave their computer to go look at gay porn while I micro for my life. And I hate you fucking commentators who fucking yell about the beautiful storms that all the fucking gaytosses are doing because ooooh it's so hard to press the "t" key, but all the casters are gay noobs who are gay for Protoss and can't wait for the thermal lance upgrade so Colossus can extend their range so they can suck that extended range. It's the dumbest no-skill race and Blizzard took everything from us. Hellbats? Gone. Medivac speed? Gone. Widow mines? Nerfed. Ghost snipe? Nerfed. We have nothing. WE HAVE FUCKING NOTHING. FUCK YOU, PROTOSS. YOU DUMBSHITS NEED TO STOP THINKING YOUR WINS ARE LEGITIMATE BECAUSE YOU HAVE NO SKILL YOU BITCHES. Note from editor: Shortly after writing this article, a huge bulging vein on the side of MaxTerran's head burst open and he had to be rushed to a nearby hospital where doctors describe his situation as "Stable, but angry". To come: - Shocking Tossgirl Plastic Surgery Pics - Shocking Nude Pics of Ellen Page Discovered by Albanian Teenager - Jeppe works in the potatoe factory - TwitchPlaysTetris ends in failure - PHÂT PHÙC restaurant sponsors new starleague - BREAD! - Interview with Skzlime - How doge might save eSports - SC2 is officially "complete shit" - The cute corner - Puck's many painful surgeries - Shauni's tips on how to acquire pussy - What July is REALLY doing - Campaign to get EvinKura his shirt #stopricksanchez2014 - How to get a game of BroodWar - Random girl joins random team! - Closing thoughts - Epiclogue aka Why are Germans so angry? | ||
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farvacola
United States18815 Posts
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YourMom
Romania565 Posts
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Golgotha
Korea (South)8418 Posts
On January 04 2014 18:10 REDBLUEGREEN wrote: Ummm...Pax Romana, Pax Britannica, Pax Mongolica etc? There are many examples where large empires did indeed lead to less internal wars then previously existed in the conquered areas. Cultural, commercial and scientific exchange also flourished and lead to economic growth. Or how about the USA? 500 subjugated indian nations, occurrences of genocide, systematic destruction of culture and language, countless broken treaties (some of which are legal to this day and still not honored) and yet there is internal peace now and it has become the richest country on earth. Could this have happened with Nazi Germany? No, that's why it is a hypothetical question. Is the idea so absurd that you need to insult his intelligence? No. Rofl. Yeah you are right. The Gauls just picked flowers after Julius enslaved their women and sons. No wonder the Romans held that swath of territory. "Could this have happened with Nazi Germany? No..." - Are you serious? So you agree with me and I answered his question that specifically pertains to Nazi Germany, but you find his thinking rational? Look, I'm just trying to set him straight since he seems to believe that there would have been unity and peace in concentration camp happy Germany. Yeah, I think that is absurd. Highly. | ||
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Monsen
Germany2548 Posts
On January 05 2014 03:05 Golgotha wrote: Rofl. Yeah you are right. The Gauls just picked flowers after Julius enslaved their women and sons. No wonder the Romans held that swath of territory. "Could this have happened with Nazi Germany? No..." - Are you serious? So you agree with me and I answered his question that specifically pertains to Nazi Germany, but you find his thinking rational? Look, I'm just trying to set him straight since he seems to believe that there would have been unity and peace in concentration camp happy Germany. Yeah, I think that is absurd. Highly. That's not what you said though. If we ignore the shitty way you started your post with (opening insult always a pro move) we find that you were talking about a general scenario in which a conquered nation might or might not "submit". He pointed out several historic occasions where arguably conquest somewhat improved stability in response. Also there have been plenty of occasions where conquered people simply assimilated into the conquering nation. Does this apply to WW2 and Nazi Germany? Of course not. Is the notion of a conquering nation improving stability by force always ridiculous? Of course not. You need to get of your high horse. | ||
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Bunn
Estonia934 Posts
On January 05 2014 00:44 ninazerg wrote: Well, that's always a good way to start a conversation... I actually have friends on Teamliquid and from other places who are French and are German, and have read this. They've actually said "Hey, you mixed this up" or "You messed this part up" or "You forgot this". Probably the worst part of my post is defining Nazism, Fascism, and Socialism as political and economic entities, because it's kind of vague. This, however, is not a research paper, and I'm not teaching a history class. However, to be perfectly honest, pretty much everything you've claimed about me applies directly to you. No matter what I reply with, you're going to say I'm wrong, because you've already decided that I am arrogant and immature. The essence of your post is "I think you are wrong about your definitions of Nazism and Fascism, but I'm not going to tell you why, because I don't have the time to deal with you." Additionally, if you did write a response, I would almost certainly cringe at the content of such a post because your style of writing is virtually unreadable. That's why one shouldn't write on the subject matter if one isn't educated well enough in it. A small fact that isn't correct may and will cause misinterpretation among other people and/or nations. Hitler wasn't the cause of the war, more likely it was the seriously unfair conditions of the Versaille' treaty and the horrible economic conditions at the time. Hitler wanted war, but only to get back their lost lands and get rid of the unfair limitations of the Versaille treaty. Italy and Japan joined him, because they got less out of the Versaille treaty than they had hoped for (US was fearful of Japan getting control of Asia). There were many reasons for the war, and Hitler shouldn't be called a 'dick', as he definitely wasn't the most evil person to walk on earth. The most evil person is probably the person who controls the banks in Switzerland (why else wasn't Switzerland conquered?) Estonia was occupied by Russians and Germans, but life under German rule was probably better. Some would agree, others would argue - matter of perspective. US and UK abandoned the Baltic states so I have no sympathy towards them either (at least President Bush apologized). And why did you list just some former head's of state, why not name them all. Anyways, talking about history seems pretty pointless. We won't ever know all the facts, and there's definitely going to be some misinterpretation. Total objectivity is not accepted as well - we can't talk about it without emotions. | ||
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farvacola
United States18815 Posts
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Bunn
Estonia934 Posts
On January 05 2014 03:21 farvacola wrote: How dare you call Hitler a dick, Nina! Good thing we still have people willing to speak up when someone calls Hitler a dick. When no one speaks for Hitler, who will speak for me? lelelel im funny lol sarcasm This is what I meant when I said that there isn't no objectivity or emotions involved | ||
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farvacola
United States18815 Posts
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ninazerg
United States7291 Posts
But yeah, Hitler started the war. He purposefully violated the Treaty of Versailles, sent troops into Austria and Czechoslovakia, and then invaded Poland after signing a treaty declaring that he would stop being a dick and invading countries. | ||
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Paljas
Germany6926 Posts
On January 05 2014 03:18 Bunn wrote: There were many reasons for the war, and Hitler shouldn't be called a 'dick', as he definitely wasn't the most evil person to walk on earth. TIL that only the most evil person on the planet should be called a dick, otherwise its just to mean | ||
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MoltkeWarding
5195 Posts
As far as the question go, while Hitler's private personality remains elusive, the broader questions raised are not very controversial: The is very little evidence for Hitler's alleged homosexuality or other depravities. Books like Lothar Machtan's Hidden Hitler proclaiming Hitler's homosexuality is a load of CI psychoanalysis which is not taken seriously by serious historians. Although allegations of Hitler's sexual depravities surface again and again on the history channel, they are largely based on completely disreputable sources of legend and propaganda, including the wartime OSS reports based on the testimony of Nazi defect Hanfstaengl, and put together by the psychoanalyst Walter Langer. Read against post-war analyses of Hitler, all of these things fall apart, but they keep surfacing in popular culture, because they reflect the reality that people, particularly Americans wanted to believe, that the Hitler legend was reinforced by an Dickensian portrait revealing an abnormal and highly eccentric figure. Without calling him ordinary, Hitler was a very complicated and mysterious human being. Despite the fact that historical literature on him dwarfs the volumes written about his other great contemporaries: Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin and Mussolini, he is perhaps the most elusive of them all when it came to distilling a core being. As a youth he was an outcast and lonely idealist. His social non-conformity and sense of rebellion against the patriarchal authority of his small-town upbringing contributed his lack of vocational or academic success, despite his intelligence and natural knack for leadership. In any case, his resentment of the bourgeois world and its values lasted until the end of his life. One thing we notice at the initial phase of his life was his duality. His behaviour was always extremely polite, but in his politeness was a rigid formality which cloaked personal detachment. Despite being a poor orphan after 1907, he impressed most people as belonging to a more respectable class by his reserved and formal bearing. Until the end of his life, he would never use the familiar du form with any of his associates, not even those close to him. His extreme formality, politeness and detachment was especially notable with women, and today there are myriads of questions surrounding his relationships with the most important women in his life. Beneath the calm and conformity there was a volcanic soul disturbed by sublime visions. Having dropped out of the Realschule his mother put him in to secure some kind of certain future for him, he had no appetite for study, and was positively bored by most academic content. One exception he made for history, which he loved. He did not seem to establish any close rapport with any of his provincial peers until the age of 15 or 16, when he met August Kubizek at a performance of the Linz Opera. In any case, he decided that he was going to pursue his artistic ambitions by entering the Fine Arts Academy of Vienna. Contrary to common dictum, Hitler was not untalented as a watercolourist, and his failure to secure entry to the highly competitive academy was not an omen of some kind of cognitive dissonance. After an interview with the director of the academy, Hitler became convinced that he was more an architect than an artist, but here again, his lack of a formal education prevented him from pursuing his vision. Hitler's later enthusiasm for personal talent, and imagination and vision over orthodoxy, education and bureaucracy stemmed from this original sense of injured merit. In the years between his mother's death and the outbreak of the First World War, he lived in frightening isolation and loneliness. He sketched, he painted, and he read. Above all he watched, absorbed, and resented the mundane society around him, and their alltägliche Values. Hitler was a German romantic, but he shunned the cultural decadence of fin-de-siecle Vienna as much as he shunned the trivial culture of provincial Linz. Having had little formal education, he lent and read many books, and cultivated a self-taught intelligence which was more inspired than academic. His remarkable gift for remembering all kinds of historical and technical details were in his formative years dormant, but would later make him an impressive debater who impressed academic and military professionals, especially since he lacked their vocational training. In the sum, Hitler's Viennese years probably impressed him with a Kafkaesque sense of alienation from the world he lived in. All around him he saw people pursuing vain pleasures of the absurd, the spiritual emptiness behind their drawing room manners and worldly affectations. His reading of history had already reinforced in him the conviction, that in lieu of the personal estrangement which he drew from his natural habitat, the German nation was a surrogate community to which he gave his mind and soul. This explains why two years before the war, Hitler would dodge the draft in Austria, choosing to flee to Bavaria, yet when the World War broke out, Hitler immediately volunteered for the German army. During the war Hitler was a good and conscientious soldier. He was as physically frail and socially isolated as ever, but he never complained about the ordeals of life in the trenches. He later wrote that serving as a common soldier in the war was the happiest time of his life, and that the experience of the war was his real schooling. In any case, he preferred sketching and writing poetry to fraternisation with his comrades, and preferred to draw affection from a stray dog which wandered into the trenches, Fuchsl, than from human contact. Reinforcing his emotionally spartan habits were his personal abstemiousness which accompanied him through his life: he disliked the lower pleasures, and had no taste for cigars, alcohol or strumpets. One facet of Hitler that must be remarked upon was his perfect seriousness in all things. He had no sense of humour, and was never trivial. All the ideas and inspirations which attracted his attention were gigantic, and were treated with the gravest contemplation. Surveying his life, one gets the sense that there were no scenes of comedy, as would intersect the ligaments a Shakespearean tragedy. The pathos of his entire life was that of an enormous melodrama: a startling story of a man's rise from obscurity to the greatest summits of destiny by sheer force of will, only to be destroyed by the same daemonic energies which created him. In the intersections one senses few moments of either calm or true happiness. After the war, there were Hitler's experiences as a political operative in Munich, in which role he stumbled upon the National Socialist Workers' Party. Many of Hitler's biographers have remarked upon the alarming milestone which Munich had upon his life; prior to the age of 30, his life was an unremarkable wasteland of loneliness and failure. In Munich however, speaking among the politically agitated beer halls of the post-war city, he found his voice. Or rather, he discovered his remarkable ability to influence people. This was extraordinary considering his secluded and asocial existence up to this point; when he emerged, he was more prophet than politician. This talent became indispensable to his party and later on, to his political success. Up until that point in his life, Hitler was tormented by his futile dreams. Now, when the Great War had destroyed those bourgeois pillars of society which excluded him from a role of importance and influence, he suddenly found hundreds, and later thousands and millions of willing listeners to his gospel. In another way too, the Great War was a catalyst for the coming of Hitler, for it had swept away the conflict between the Byronic individual and his society, by imbibing them in the collective trauma of war and defeat. The uprooted and frustrated idealist was in post-war Germany no longer an outsider, but a mirror to millions of anguished people. Therefore it is no hypothesis to say that Germany's defeat in war saved Hitler from a life of obscurity. However, it is too much to say that Hitler's history infers some kind of superficial ideologue with monomaniacal visions. One mistake ordinary people, and even historians make with Hitler is that they mistake the surface for the core. They will read his speeches, or even Mein Kampf, and say: well, there it is in Hitler's own words. With Hitler it's not that simple. Some things he said for political expediency, some things he wrote in reaction to a discrete situation. His deepest motivations, like Iago, are frustratingly elusive. This is why Mein Kampf is not a very good guide for tracing Hitler's ideology when he became Reichskanzler, because his social critiques and programmes were already outdated by the 1930s. One of the most obvious examples is how insignificantly the concept of Lebensraum actually figured in his foreign policy after he assumed power. The reason largely was rooted in what is now known as The First Red Scare in 1919. Having overthrown the Democratic government under Alexander Kerensky, the Communist Party abolished other major political parties, and their leaders were arrested. This move was seen as a dangerous and extremist move by the newly-created Soviet Union, which was not just seen as threat to Europe, but to the entire world, who feared that Soviet spies would start revolutions in Democratic nations all over the world and that ultimately, Russia would attempt to take over the world. Concerning the Western reaction to the October Revolution: the danger as perceived by London was not the threat of Russian infiltration of Germany, but the reverse. Initially, it was feared that the Bolsheviks were the puppets of the Germans, and in any case their accession to power tremendously benefited the German position in Eastern Europe. The initial allied expeditions to Murmansk, then to Archangel and the Japanese-American landing in Vladivostok was not designed to overthrow the Bolsheviks, but to prevent the military stores from falling into German hands. The suspicion among the Western allies that the Russian Revolution was a proxy for German domination was the original seed which poisoned relations between Russia and the West. Throughout most of the 1920s and the early 1930s, The Soviet Union was considered the greatest threat to world peace, and "The Axis", a group of emerging powers like Germany, Italy, and Japan formed an alliance to deter the threat of Soviet aggression. German foreign policy was not monomaniacally anti-Soviet, not even during Hitler's chancellorship. The anti-Comintern pact was signed in 1936, at a time when Soviet foreign policy under the guidance of Litvinov was veering in an anti-German line, most notably in the consummation of the Franco-Czechoslovak-Soviet treaty of 1935. The anti-Comintern pact was a tactical move with wide-ranging consequences down the line, but its immediate motivations served the purpose of ending German diplomatic isolation. Militarily, its intentions were neither explicitly defensive nor offensive. It created more manoeuvring room for Hitler vis-a-vis the West. Consider for example, Hitler's attempt to drive a wedge between Britain and France with the 1935 naval treaty. The main obstacle to German foreign policy aims in 1936 was France, not the Soviet Union. France and Britain allowed the Germans to continue building up their military forces as what I believe was a fear of Soviet expansionism. Although Germany and France were bitter enemies, even in peace, Hitler maintained a good relationship with Britain's Prime Minister, and hoped to build a Anglo-German alliance against the Soviets, but such an alliance never materialized. As usual with Hitler, it is easy to overemphasise ideology over strategy. Ideally, yes, Hitler wanted a Britain which accepted German domination of Central-Eastern Europe in exchange for a German acceptance of British global and maritime supremacy. This was based on Hitler's reading of history as well as ideology: Hitler had been a critic of Wilhelminian Weltpolitik because it had been based too much on prestige and not sufficiently on material gain. Hitler's particular vision of an Anglo-German modus vivendi was based on the notion that Britain and Germany were asymmetrical powers, competing upon different platforms on the world stage. The powers most dangerous to Britain's world position, Hitler calculated, were America and Japan. Germany had little to profit from the bankruptcy of the British Empire. Nonetheless, when he found that Empire ranged irreconcilably against him during the war, he had little reserve in inviting Italy, Russia and Japan to carve it up with him. Hitler exploited Chamberlain's political prejudices, but despised him personally. The traits which he despised in foreign statesmen were the same as those he despised among fellow Germans: pacificism, internationalism, and the bien-pensant politics of bourgeois democracies. During the Rhineland crisis he turned to his associates and said: 'Now we shall see if France has statesmen.' Concerning Chamberlain's capitulation in Munich, he would later say: 'Our enemies are little worms. I saw them at Munich.' Hitler despised the notion of great nations being led by feeble-hearted leaders. His own sense of history was fairly Rankean, and he admired William Pitt as well as Frederick the Great. The world's opinion quickly began to turn against the Axis Powers during the 1930s as each Germany, Italy and Japan began engaging in aggressive military conflicts and annexations with their neighbors, while the Soviet Union remained largely docile. The Soviet invasions of Finland and the Baltic states did not begin until after the start of World War 2, when France and Britain had already declared war on Germany. With regard to Italy and Japan, this was true to a limited extent. The Italian invasion of Abyssinia triggered a rift between Britain and Italy which was never repaired, and in the end harmed British interests immensely after 1936. France was put in the awkward position of the middleman, afraid to alienate either power. Ultimately it was Britain, not France, which threw Mussolini into Hitler's camp. Pierre Laval tried his best to reconcile Mussolini to no avail. Similarly, it was not Britain and France, but the United States which reacted with the greatest indignation to the second Sino-Japanese war. Britain and France were fairly neutral, until the Japanese came to their own conclusions about which faction they wished to align with in Europe, and America's gravity pulled them to the other side. Germany went beyond the pale with the march into Prague in March 1939. Prior to that, the British were indifferent to German expansionism in Europe as long as it was achieved peacefully. France had a more direct interest, but she was unable to pull the British into a more assertive policy. The march into Prague led to a tectonic shift in the foreign office, where first Eden, then Chamberlain fell into a dudgeon of disbelief. There is an interesting timeline on Chamberlain's shift in attitudes between the Birmingham speech 2 days after Prague, and his Commons speech 2 weeks later, in which guarantees were offered to Poland, Romania and Greece. They were rather spontaneous and poorly-conceived, which rather reflected its author's illness about being forced into that position by Hitler. To the last, Chamberlain was hesitant in carrying them out to the brink of war. Hitler knew this, which is why the German-Polish negotiations in summer 1939 were primarily designed to drive a wedge between Britain and the Poles, and give Chamberlain an honourable way to retract his Polish guarantee. The Nazi Party drew the narrative that the Weimar Republic government as weak and indecisive, and Hitler referred to them as "cowards" and "treasonous" for giving into the demands of the French government. Again, there is a distinction between aims and strategy. It is interesting to note that when the French invasion of the Ruhr in 1923 provoked international condemnation, and triggered a vast wave of strikes and protests among everyone in Germany, the Nazi party forbade their own members' participation in the anti-French protests. Hitler saw how the French invasion aided the aims of the Nazi party, by undermining the legitimacy of the Weimar regime. Later on he would say of Stresemann's foreign policy that the old statesman had some successful talents, but he made a cardinal mistake: he hoped that by achieving successes in foreign policy, he could unite the German people behind his government, whereas the truth was that without first achieving the unity of the German people, successes in foreign policy were impossible. In the end of course, Hitler's military fortunes deserted him and his Greater German Reich was destroyed, but the Nazi domestic revolution is something that deserves more attention, because many of its attributes have outlived the collapse of the Third Reich. Edit: I need to mention, for the sake of my own sanity, that after Hitler's rise to power, the Nazi Party nationalized many large industries, so I guess he's a commie after all, and if this section offended you in any way, please don't hesitate to suck a dick. Nazi industrial policy was not nationalisation. The great industries were left in private hands, but subject to national direction. In the end, there was no difference, except some esoteric analyses of the traditional smallholder foundations of German industry which failed to compete with scaled Fordian standardisation achieved in both Russia and America during the war. Hitler adopted the Nazi Party's philosophy that blue-eyed, blonde-haired Nordic peoples were the ideal stock, and that Jews, Slavs, Arabs, Romani, Blacks, and so on, were all inferior to Nordic people. This is both inaccurate and a vast simplication of Hitler's thoughts on race. Hitler's anti-semitism was an independent thing all together, and was not necessarily attached to any concrete sentiments of Jewish inferiority, but to their corrosive and decadent effects on national societies. At the same time, many of his other facets of racial consciousness was merely an empirical projection of his personal values. Prior to the war, the Italians were worthy allies because of their revival of the Roman tradition. The experience of the war revealed that the Italians were a hopeless, decadent people unsuited to greatness. Russians were primitive people occupying a vast portion of the world's resources whose territory may be systematically colonised by Germany. By the end of the war, they deserved to be the nation of the future if they could overcome Germany. Was Hitler a Secret Jew? The answer to this is almost 100% no. However whether Hitler believed he might have had some Jewish provenance is an interesting question. Because there is no conclusive view, either during Hitler's lifetime or among modern historians as to the identity of Hitler's paternal grandfather, there is a lot of room for speculation on Hitler's family history. However, I think at this point the Frankenberger hypothesis is more or less finished. There is proof that Hitler had many female partners throughout his life. And then there's this: The picture is of course photoshopped, and there was no way that Hitler would ever have met with women in a state of undress in any public manner. His private sexuality is unknown, and is better untouched upon, because there has been a lot of empty sound and fury on this subject. We have no way of knowing for certain whether or not Hitler believed in a non-Christian notion of God Hitler was baptised Catholic, he disliked the facets of Western civilisation influenced by the church. His statements suggest that his spiritual views are more Hegelian, than one of a traditional religious bent. How Did Hitler React When Black People Won Medals in The Olympics? The Jesse Owens myth is not true, but as far as I am aware, Hitler is known to have made only one remark related to this subject. It was to the effect that primitive conditions had given the negro a natural physical superiority over civilised whites. So is history being written by the victors, or was Hitler really that bad? Yes, Hitler possessed a myriad of evil qualities. However, according to the caricatures of modern culture, Hitler is merely being portrayed as the foil of our own enlightened sense of progress and virtue. In some ways, Hitler is the cultural scapegoat we use to justify our own post-Hitlerian ideology. Due to vast distillation of our understanding of human nature, we simplify him to the extent that he becomes merely the avatar of evil, rather than a serious instruction of a man's moral anatomy. There were many qualities Hitler had which command respect; his insight, his courage, his self-discipline, his loyalty, and even his capacity for genuine human empathy. He was furthermore elevated by a tremendous talent which, more than any other figure of modern history, plucked him from the dregs of obscurity and placed him at the summit of world history. Yet the very power of Hitler's insights created an enormous revolutionary drive, supported by an enormous willpower to change his nation's history. His self-discipline sustained him in his virile hatreds for entire categories of people. His self-denial and experience of hardship taught him to make a virtue out of hardness. Hitler was not an insensitive man, but his power of conviction would often eclipse and blot out those lingering human attachments which may be extended to moderate ordinary human action. Finally, there was something terrible in his raw adulation of the heroic vision of man. To be sure, his aims in German society were more nuanced than merely to reward the strong and punish the weak. He attempted to pervade Germany with a new national ideology by which he hoped to elevate the collective talents of the nation. Yet when all is said and done, there was no room in his panoply of ideas for the value of the intrinsic person. A person was valued by Hitler in terms of what he could do, either presently or in his future potential. His wholesale rejection of the West's Christian civilisation, which he realised no less than Nietzsche as the true antithesis of his ideals, was the thing which above all contributed to his posthumous monstrous reputation. | ||
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