On Saturday, 10 September 2016 22:46:51 UTC+1, BillD wrote:
Tim Streater wrote:
In article ,
wrote:

On Friday, 9 September 2016 14:50:32 UTC+1, Fredxxx wrote:
On 09/09/2016 13:59, Dan S. MacAbre wrote:

I think one of the hardest things in history is to try to understand
what people thought of Hitler in the 30's.

That is quite easy. The Great Depression started in 1929 and continued
for most countries until the late 30's.

There were no state benefits payable to anyone who was out of work. We
have also conveniently forgotten who invented and ran the banking
system. They were vilified in much the same way bankers are today for
the 2007/8 bank bailouts. People lost their life saving and the blame
was firmly placed on bankers at that time. In those days bankers were
not a protected characteristic.

Hitler had various socialist policies. One of which was a Christian
tradition that interest should not be charged, and that there should be
no return on capital; where only labours were remunerated. If Corbyn
adopted those policies, who knows!

On top of that Hitler spent his way out any economic disaster, the
opposite of austerity and used the resource to arm Germany.

I'm sure he considered himself to be something of a socialist, as
least as far as native Germans were concerned.

He was very much a socialist and was voted in on that basis.

I always understood the main reason he was voted in is he was the only one
giving Germany a hope of being great, when it was in such poverty that many
had nothing like enough to eat. AIUI he made no secret of his more lunatic
views, but did have some smart insights in some respects, and thus people
bought into his vision as one of hope. Of course they had little clue
what would really happen & how.

Well, he wrote it all down in Mein Kampf, so plenty of people had no
excuse.


He never said in Mein Kampf that he was going to occupy most of Europe or
kill all the Jews he could either.

Unlike in the Koran.