GoldenRivet |
04-25-07 01:27 AM |
Just my opinion here based on what i have read and been told by 60- 70 plus year old ethnic Germans...
Naziism started out as a pro-labor political party which was meant to return power and strength to Germany, increase support for the workers and laborers, directly address economical and social strife in Germany and protect Germany from the spread of communism. The political party in and of itself was not bad... its ideals were sound and made sense to a lot of people.
Hitler who was promoted to head of propoganda within the party later became the chief figurhead and party leader. When he subjected a perfectly legitimate political party to adopting his own political and social beliefs of anti-semitism, anti-communism, the belief in a master race and fascism things began to degrade for Germany and the party.
Hitler and the Nazi party sought to regain the territory lost to germany after WW1 in the treaty of versailles... problem is that Hitler sought to do this through military action instead of simply building up a strong well respected nation with a great military and economy and then achieving these things through the use of diplomacy over the course of several years. Germany and the Nazis were on the right road up until the very late 1930s.
Through the use of the SS, and largely to the fault of Hitler and Heinrich Himmler the extermination of the Jews was began as well as the campaign to "take over the world"... and thus the fate of Nazism as a legitimate and respectable political party was sealed.
Post world war two the term NAZI no longer refers to an appropriate or admissable political party that is pro-labor, with a strong national principle... when someone says NAZI thoughts of mass murder, hatred and racism come to mind.
Nazism appealed to many people around the globe at the time of its creation not just Germans... It is unfortunate that such a political system could be forever ruined by the attrocities of it's leaders.
Germania... truly a paradise lost.
flame away :shifty:
BTW hilarious you tube link!!!
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