If Germany fell into economic hardship again and a Nazi government began to come in power, would you support ?

Question

According to my previous question Germans think the Nazis were great because they brought Germany out of economic hardship and Hitler was a great guy and great planner???

Answer 1

I didn't see your previous question and can't see it now as your Q&A is private, so I don't know which answers you are referring to. If you give a link to the question I'll be able to comment better on it. I think you either misunderstood people or you actually found some neo-Nazis here. Actually I recently saw a German on American Yahoo! Answers who wrote that he thinks Hitler was a "decent leader". I also encountered some neo-Nazis on the German version of this site, as the anonymity of the Internet is great for such people and so bigots are often overrepresented on such sites. Anyway I can assure you that most Germans do not think that way (I'm German and have lived in Germany for all my life). It's very clear that Hitler was a dictator and mass murderer, definitely not a "great guy". There are however people who think that Nazism had "good sides too" (I mean they say that the Holocaust and the war were of course terrible, but that in their opinion there were other aspects that were good, according to a recent poll about 20 % of the population think so, but the same poll also showed that about 50 % strictly reject such a view). Like there are people who say "if he had not killed the Jews, he would be remembered as a great leader now" and such stuff. I think this is a despicable view. Recently there was a scandal around a TV moderator in Germany who said that she thinks family policy was good in Nazi Germany, and that the "good sides" of the Nazi time should be recognized. Her TV station fired her immediately. When she later repeated her views in a chat show where she was as a guest, the moderator told her to leave before the show was finished.
It's a fact that the economic situation in Germany improved after the Nazis came to power, and that made the regime popular among many people at that time. But this temporary improvement of the economic situation came along with the end of democracy and free speech, with serious discrimination against the Jews right from the beginning, and finally World War II and the Holocaust. Whoever thinks that a temporary improvement of the economic situation outweighed millions of deaths is insane, evil, or both.
And to answer your primary question, no, I would definitely not support a Nazi government.

EDIT: Now as someone gave the link I saw the original question. I see that there were answers of the "there were good sides too" type, and I think it's not just your fault that you misunderstood answers like others wrote here, but there are actually answers that I find very troubling. I strongly disagree with what these people wrote. Like one person wrote "Who would, in times of peace (i.e. 1933-1939), not have appreciated being part of it", referring to the economic improvement after the Nazis came to power. Well I definitely wouldn't. Right in 1933 all Jewish professors were dismissed, shops owned by Jews were boycotted, books written by Jews or by whoever else the Nazis didn't like were burned and banned (all the good books, they burned and banned everything that was about peace and equality and such), all other parties were banned, and the first concentration camp was set up in Dachau to silence the political opposition. All media became Nazi controlled, free speech was abolished, all this right in 1933. No, I would not have liked to be a part of it. I find it in fact very troubling to hear that people say they think the overall situation in Germany improved in 1933. It just shows they don't care a bit for democracy, equality, and freedom.

And I think your other question was a good and legitimate one.

Answer 2

Ahh, poor dogsnoop. Must be you. Got banned on your old account (for racism, I'm sure) so making a new one to continue to spew the same garbage.

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That is the previous question. No one there said that Hitler was a great guy. But in your closed mind, you see what you want to see and not what people really say. No matter what I say (or anyone else here, for that matter) you will still continue to pre-judge Germans, thus making you prejudice (dogsnoop or not, I don't care). Your lack of education and facts just proves that you are only out to cause drama and not get facts. Because those facts would prove ignorance on your part and make you feel small.

Learn your history. The socialist workers party was not a bad political group when it was elected into power. Hitler and the war made it bad. The intentions were good at the beginning. Hitler may have been an evil man, but he was also a genius. How else could a non-German man become the most powerful man in Germany? And although he did unforgiveable things, he also did some good too.

But those things are IN THE PAST. Germany has moved on. The rest of the world has moved on. Maybe you should do the same? Stop being so anti-everything and leave your back yard. You might actually see some things and maybe even .... learn something.

Answer 3

Hitler was a sick and twisted man however the government type had supported great advances for the German economy and i think that it is unfair to judge a type of government based on who ran it. for example, Stalin made communism out to be evil but it had good ideas in mind, people also say that Americas government is in the gutter so to speak because of bush, while leaders mess things up it is not the type of government that does this. i think that a party with ideals that the Nazis held before Hitler decided upon the final solution was a good government and that if he and its leaders not been inherently evil the Nazi party may have rivaled that of Americas government. under the guidelines for the national socialist workers party the Germans were happy... long story short i would support it period...

Answer 4

Hitler was NOT a great guy. But he was a great planner and did do wonderful things for the German economy right up to about September 1st 1939. Unfortunately, he also had a very evil side which makes him and the nazi party one hundred percent unacceptable ever.

Answer 5

Perhaps he do something "good" like build the autobahns in Germany, but in the mean time he killed over 6 million Jewish people, brought the whole Europe in so bad situation it's make so sense for me. Germany will be not falling in parts with economic, they are having hard working intelligent people and for NAZI Regime I just say NO NO NO. I'm against the wars and against the human rights.

Answer 6

I read the answers to your previous question, and you are mischaracterizing them. No one said Hitler was a great guy - they did say that there were some benefits to the country that came out of that government, but there was agreement that Hitler was totally wrong.

Answer 7

Hi there from Düsseldorf, Germany. Please do not expect smart answers on such a silly question. "Germans think the Nazis were great" is like "Americans think they are Indians" - just bullshit. No more comment on this....

Answer 8

Hi, I'm a German. I think I would let myself vote into government by the public on any means, and then keep the power by firstly removing the supreme court who could overrule the public voting and order a recount or re-elections, and then put a person like Goebbels as my propaganda minister into power who makes the media conformist and bribes the Vatican, and then create a scapegoat to start a criminal war.

If that reminds you of something, it isn't my fault.

Answer 9

Beware yourselves, folks! Danger doesn't like to come from where you look out for it. It enjoys to stand in your back all of a sudden.

Answer 10

No, never. It would be worth being killed or defecting to protest. It goes against my morals and ethics. By the way, so does Bush.