Great victory day

Dilandu wrote:Congratulations to all on Victory Day! 70 years ago the Nazi Germany were ultimately defeated after a long and hard war for the sake of all humankind. Let's put all politic aside and give praise to all who make this victory for us.

Michael Everett wrote:What many people forget is which country was invaded by the Nazis first.

Germany.

Let us never forget.

Bruno Behrends wrote:I find it real scary that so many people got behind such a perverse ideology so quickly.

HB of CJ wrote:Let us be thankful that things in Germany in the 1930s had not been slightly different. What if Hilter had embraced the Jewish people instead of what he actually did?

If THAT had happend and if Hiltler had not made just a couple of big critical strategic mistakes, we would all be speaking German today? Yep. HB of CJ (old coot) Jr. Capt.

If your interested in the underpinnings of Fascism (especially the original Italian version) check out the Italian author Gabriele D’Annunzio, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriele_D%27Annunzio, regarded as the Godfather of Italian fascism. Fascism got it’s start in the trenches along the Isonzo River in the Great War. The Italian veterans were trying to create a political movement from the “Trencharchy” Something similar happened in Germany with the Freikorp movement. There was a civil war in Bavaria (Bayern) in 1919 between the Reds and the Whites and the Whites won. A similar civil war took place in Finland in 1919 where the whites won. A lot of people from the end of the Great War through the 1930’s saw liberal democracy as a failure, with the only choices being either fascism in its various versions and communism. During the Spanish Civil War one side was authoritarian fascist and the other totalitarian Communists. There was no liberal democracy side in that war. Italian Fascism was significantly different from German National Socialism. There was no antisemitism in Italian Fascism as several of it’s founders were Jewish. Mussolini’s favorite mistress was Jewish and he had several children by her. Mussolini was originally a far left socialist and flipped to the far right as a result of his experiences in the Great War along the Isonzo front where he nearly died twice. Hitler has similar experiences on the western front. As did millions of other people during the Great War. The NSDAP lifted the term “Sturm Abteilung” (SA, “storm troopers”) from the Stoss Truppen of the war, deliberately invoking the cachet of those elite units.

Howard T. Map-addict wrote:If Hitler had embraced us, (if he'd been able to,)
Then we would have set his morality straight.