Events always seem more obvious and predictable after they have already taken place.
Events always seem more obvious and predictable if you’re not a fucking moron. The German public was terrified of Hitler, he absolutely did not represent the majority sentiments, and lost horribly in the first and only election he ever ran in. Instead, he created his own paramilitary force called the SA and intimidated people and politicians alike until he was given power to appease him, and you know the rest.
There were more communists and socialists than Nazis in Germany when Hitler first got into office. They actually attempted a revolution, which was actually what prompted Hitler to convince the German parliament to sign an emergency bill to make him dictator and round up all the communists in concentration camps.
Austria saw a brief stint under partial socialist control as well. It’s why there’s a historic housing district in Vienna called Karl Marx Hof. Actually, the presence of socialism and communism in Austria was a major contributor in the eagerness by the government to let the Nazis take them over so they could deal with the communist threat.
You know, about a dozen hours ago I was just thinking about how careful the WSJ was to mislead readers without explicitly taking a side on the matter. I misremembered this story as the WSJ itself telling people to relax, when it did something subtler and less direct than that: selective reporting.
If Mein Kampf, the NSDAP’s antisemitism and the violence from the Fascist paramilitaries in the Weimar Republic were somehow insufficient warnings, then Fascist Italy and specifically its atrocities against Libyans (including putting thousands in concentration camps) should have been thorough.
Events always seem more obvious and predictable if you’re not a fucking moron. The German public was terrified of Hitler, he absolutely did not represent the majority sentiments, and lost horribly in the first and only election he ever ran in. Instead, he created his own paramilitary force called the SA and intimidated people and politicians alike until he was given power to appease him, and you know the rest.
There were more communists and socialists than Nazis in Germany when Hitler first got into office. They actually attempted a revolution, which was actually what prompted Hitler to convince the German parliament to sign an emergency bill to make him dictator and round up all the communists in concentration camps.
Austria saw a brief stint under partial socialist control as well. It’s why there’s a historic housing district in Vienna called Karl Marx Hof. Actually, the presence of socialism and communism in Austria was a major contributor in the eagerness by the government to let the Nazis take them over so they could deal with the communist threat.
You know, about a dozen hours ago I was just thinking about how careful the WSJ was to mislead readers without explicitly taking a side on the matter. I misremembered this story as the WSJ itself telling people to relax, when it did something subtler and less direct than that: selective reporting.
If Mein Kampf, the NSDAP’s antisemitism and the violence from the Fascist paramilitaries in the Weimar Republic were somehow insufficient warnings, then Fascist Italy and specifically its atrocities against Libyans (including putting thousands in concentration camps) should have been thorough.