On Jun 11, 2:05*pm, David Nebenzahl wrote:
On 6/11/2009 8:36 AM spake thus:





On Jun 11, 9:48 am, RicodJour wrote:

What is being "discussed" here is politics.

Yes, and you said

"Your kid has a roof over his head, food on the table, is in
reasonable health and has parents that care. *With that in mind, who
gives a rat's ass about the politics?"

Which is incredibly naive. * My obvious point is, ignore politics and
you could wind up like Nazi Germany. * Germany prospered under
Hitler's rule, people had better roofs, more food on the table, and
the trains ran on time. * *So, people didn't much care about his
politics, the morality of it, and look where it got them and the
world.

This oft-repeated piece of misinformation needs refuting, again.

Like the common saying that "Mussolini made the trains run on time",
it's simply not true. Hitler *did* make (some of the) German people feel
better about themselves, and erased some of the shame they felt from
their last ignominious defeat (in WWI and its aftermath), but Germany
was not the relative paradise you describe by any means.

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Read what I posted. I never said it was a paradise. Only that the
Germans prospered, had more food, and better roofs over their heads
under Hitler.

German unemployment was 30% when Hitler came to power. By the late
1930's they were close to FULL employment. Their economy recovered
faster under Hitler from the Great Depression than any other country,
including the USA. That went a long way to luring them into not
giving a rat's ass about politics and what else Hitler was doing.

So, please stop trying to re-write history again.