Hey Cons; did you know the Germans Didn't Think Hitler Was Evil....?

Question

... in the beginning?

He was also duely ELECTED; not appointed leader. He was just loved throughout Germany and not even the Jewish leaders had the good sense to be scared of what was obviously coming down the pike before it was too late.

What do you people have against history?

1) Some of you apparently missed the "in the beginning" part of my opening question.

2) Hitler wasn't really elected leader? You people and your convoluted versions of history.

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/Nazi_Germany_dictatorship.htm

See where the Nazi party got 17 million votes?

Now if you want to debate about the validity of this election, that's fine but don't try to claim I don't know history in one breath while denying Hitler's elected status in the next.

3) There was plenty of evidence that Hitler and the Nazis were despotic criminals before they even came to power. That's why so many opposed them but at the end of the day, Hitler's fear mongering and constant claims of being the victim won the day. That's also why minorities of all kinds were fleeing Germany in droves long before the German ghettoes were established.


Feel free to edit your own posts in response because I will gladly go through each and every one of them to hear what you all have to say.

Answer 1

Well once Bush starts exterminating Jews I might get behind the idiotic comparision you are trying to draw between Bush and Hitler. Until then you just sound stupid.

Answer 2

Sorry pound liberal it's time for you to learn history. The distorted facts you have stated are in no way, shape, or form historically actuate.

Hitler never won an election outright. The Nazis won a number of seats in the Reichstag, the German Parliament; but not a majority. However, a number of influential Germans convinced President Hindenburg to appoint him Chancellor of Germany. Even though he was reluctant to do so. Even after this appointment, Hitler still could not convince enough members of the Riechstag to form a coalition government. He then convinced Hindenburg to dissolve the Riechstag and hold new elections. However, before elections could be held the Reichstag was set on fire, most likely by the Nazis, but Hitler blamed the Communists. Hitler used the burning of the Riechstag as an excuse to invoke Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution giving him emergency powers and the ability to suspended basic democratic rights. When the election did occur Hitler was able to form a coalition government, which started the road to dictatorship. Once Hindenburg died in 1934, Hitler declared himself fuhrer of Germany.

Please take the time to learn history before making uneducated comments.

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Edit:

I have already explained this to you once, but I will try it again. In any election before Germany became a dictatorship, the Nazis never received a majority vote. After the first election, not only did the Nazis not have a majority; but Hitler could not even convince enough of the opposition parties to join him and form a coalition government. Since you have cited a UK based site, I assume you are familiar with how parliamentary democracies work. But if not, I will summarize it for you. After an election, if no one party holds a majority of seats in parliament, one party must attempt to convince another party(ies) to join them in order to gain a majority of seats and thus form a coalition government. If this cannot be done, new elections must be called.

Not only did the Nazis not win a majority in first election, they did not win a majority the second time even after the Communists supposedly set fire to the Reichstag. The significance here is that the Nazis were anti-communists and portrayed themselves and the ones that would protect Germany from Communism.

So you are wrong the Nazis never had the support of a majority of Germans until after Hitler usurped Germany's democracy and turned it into a dictatorship. After a country becomes a dictatorship, any elections or public support figures are meaningless. Since most people in any country would and should be fearful for their lives if the have dissenting viewpoints from reigning dictatorial government.

Please read about Hitler's rise to power on Wikipedia. I have provided the link below.

Answer 3

What is your point here.

As soon as his agenda was revealed, plenty of Germans sacrificed their lives fighting his evil.

If it is your intent to compare our President with Hitler, you are sadly misinformed and miseducated.

EDIT: I have spoken with old timer Germans about this. They said, "First they took away our guns, then they killed anyone who disagreed." Many Germans joined the military hoping for a chance to take out Hitler, even some high-ranking SS members.

Answer 4

I very much doubt you are really a liberal by the way you seem to generalize everything.
I don't like Bush and would like to see him go but he doesn't come close to Hitler.
Bush has started one illegal war but not to dominate the whole world.
Bush does not advocate genocide,he probably can't even pronounce the word.
Frankly I think your question is offensive and wrong.Bush is a very bad politician and president in my opinion but he is not the greatest criminal in human History.Using symbols like this too much lessens their importance and that makes it ,more easy for real fascists in the future.
Yes Bush needs to be watched very carefully and the constitution needs to be protected but even the fact that you can post this question without being taken to prison proves Bush is not Hitler

Answer 5

yes I do know history and nobody including the US understood the danger that Hitler posed until he was intrenched in africa, poland and france and by that time we had a bigger fight. So if someone would have stood up to him when he first said he wanted to exterminate Jews the damage would have been minimized. NOW the islamic radicals have stated they want to kill all jews and non muslims and you dont want to deal with that so......... who is against history????????/

Answer 6

As a german whose grandparents escaped germany and the reign of hitler, I can tell you I take exception to you saying that germans didn't think that Hitler was evil, or that it was obvious that he was a madman who would take the measures he took. And he didn't just kill jews, he killed ALL non believers. Use an example from your OWN history if you want to flame. History is not for you to pick and choose, you must take ALL of it.

Answer 7

I don't have anything against history. In fact, I love history. I DO have something with these erroneous comparisons you idiots make between Bush and Hitler. Go educate yourself. Maybe it'll bring you back to REALITY.

Answer 8

So what? The US elected FDR and never thought he was evil.

Does that mean that every elected leader not thought of as evil actually is?

Your argument makes no sense whatsoever.

Answer 9

Did you skip your meds today?
Its is the liberals that would want to negotiate with a now days Hitler as they want with the Nazislamic Fascist President of Iran
Only cure for Fascist is death

Answer 10

1. Why you are addressing this to conservatives?

2. Hitler was not elected to beans! He was APPOINTED.