Monday, June 1, 2009

Slightly Comical, and yet, frighteningly similar

A book I am reading for school in Paris states "The Nazis celebrated Hitler's accession to the Chancellorship on January 30, 1933 with a gigantic torchlight parade in Berlin. But it is actually rather hard to say what these supporters imagined what they wanted, or what they thought the new government could provide. Hitler had developed into an orator of greater passion and persuasion. He denounced his enemies - the Weimar political parties, the international system with its reparations and the League of Nations - with But his program was quite unclear. The denunciation of Jews as responsible for Germany's misfortunes, had been deliberately played down in the election campaigns of the early 1930's. The splintered and fragmented German political system, which had been a cause of Germany's malaise. How could this be achieved? He had not detailed plan for recovery, and the Nazi economic policy veered backwards and forwards between inconsistent plans and ideas."

I know the connection has been made before, and I know it is a straw man argument, but if for one moment you pardon the pun of terms... didn't we learn anything from Munich? 

Bon chance!   

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