Part 3 How Hitler Manipulated Feelings of Patriotism and Nationalism to Solidify his Dominance.
This series of articles relies heavily on a psychological study of Adolf Hitler commissioned by the United States government in 1942/1943, and released as a book titled "The Mind of Adolf Hitler" by Walter C. Langer in 1972. (L) indicates Langer's words, (H) indicates Hitler's words.
As Hitler’s popularity and power grew, fueled largely by his early successes in restoring the post WWI economy, he carefully fanned the resentment of the people over their post World War I humiliations and economic plight.
The Jews presented a convenient scapegoat, for all German miseries past and present. Hitler's impassioned diatribes fed not only the anger of the masses, but also their nationalistic ambitions.
He embarked on a messianic mission to restore Germany’s greatness and expand her influence -- an influence he believed would ultimately benefit all who experienced it. He felt that “No one in German history was equipped as he to bring the Germans to the position of supremacy which all German statesmen have felt they deserved but were unable to achieve.” (L. p.33.) His nearly godlike status due to what some considered his nearly miraculous successes in restoring the German economy convinced him he could do anything and the people would be behind him.
Because they are kept in ignorance of America’s true history, or conveniently forget that we wiped out millions of our own indigenous people, built an economy through the labor of forcibly imported black human beings whom we bought and sold, as well as the indentured servitude – also often virtual slavery – of countless others, not to mention the millions of people we have killed through the bombings of non-combatant countries since WWII, most Americans -- largely because we rescued the world from Hitler because he engaged in a war of aggression choose to see the United States as an almost totally benevolent entity, and especially in a time of war, that type of “benevolent intent” is also attributed to our leader.
America was never as altruistically benevolent as many Americans would like to believe, but it is only under Bush that we are becoming a nation more hated than loved by the people of the rest of the world.
Bush frequently confided to friends that he believed God wanted him to become president. He was so convinced of this that when he did not win the 2000 election honestly, it did not cause him to lose any sleep that with the help of Daddy’s friends, he managed to steal it. We know that at least one of Bush’s generals, Jerry Boykin, believes that because Bush was not elected president, but became president anyway, that proves God meant for him to be president.
“Even his [Hitler’s] refusal to permit ordinary scruples to get in his way is cited as a sign of his greatness.” (L. p. 58.) “Hitler’s ability to repudiate his own conscience in arriving at political decisions has eliminated the force that usually checks and complicates the forward going thoughts and resolutions of most socially responsible statesmen. He has, therefore, been able to take that course of action that appeals to him as most effective without pulling his punches.” (L. p.74.)
I defy any reasonable person to assert that Bush would have become president had his brother not been governor of Florida at the time of the 2000 election. But insecure people like the fact that Bush does not waffle – something most thinking people like Kerry, when considering complex issues, do.
Again I quote former Republican Judge and Senator from Kentucky, Marlow Cook,” who repudiated Bush’s morals in an article for the Courier-Journal before the 2004 election:
“In 2000, to defeat Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. — a man who was shot down in Vietnam and imprisoned for over five years … They started the rumor that he was gay, saying he had spent too much time in the Hanoi Hilton. They said he was crazy. They said his wife was on drugs. Then, to top it off, they spread pictures of his adopted daughter, who was born in Bangladesh and thus dark skinned, to the sons and daughters of the Confederacy in rural South Carolina.
To show he was not just picking on Republicans, he went after Sen. Max Cleland from Georgia, a Democrat seeking re-election. Bush henchmen said he wasn't patriotic because Cleland did not agree 100 percent on how to handle homeland security. They published his picture along with Cuba's Castro, questioning Cleland's patriotism and commitment to America's security. Never mind that his Republican challenger was a Vietnam deferment case and Cleland, who had served in Vietnam, came home in a wheel chair having lost three limbs fighting for his country. Anyone who wants to win an election and control of the legislative body that badly has no moral character at all.
We know his father got him in the Texas Air National Guard so he would not have to go to Vietnam. The religious right can have him with those moral standards. We also have Vice President Dick Cheney, who deferred his way out of Vietnam because, as he says, he "had more important things to do…"
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‘And our cities are only part of the cities
Destroyed by us’
B. Brecht
John Kerry seems to be an educated man but I guess he didn’t study history very well. On the other hand, maybe in Yale they don’t teach history the way we used to study it when I was young. We were taught to seek the similarities and beware of the arrogance. We all belonged to the same flow, we were told; past, present and future are intertwined and if you have a clear eye and a good heart, you can look into the past and see the glimpse of the future. If only John Kerry could do that before his concession speech.
He then would be able to see the streets of the 1930s Germany engaged in the ritual of burning the banners of socialist and communist parties. The former leaders of those parties were announcing to the people that they were wrong: the German nation proved united around the Fuhrer and in order to maintain the unity they were voluntarily surrendering, dissolving their parties and burning their symbols. For hours the bacchanalia lasted, accompanied by fireworks, beer- drinking and HitlerJugend singing “ Germany beyond all.’ The Furher himself said that any German, who admitted his/her mistakes, was free to join the great nation on its march Onward to Glory and Immortality. Then, when the day was over, those wretched idiots were quietly arrested by the Gestapo and nobody saw them ever since.
Of course, John Kerry didn’t have that vision when he squeamishly surrendered but the similarity is striking and the differences are not to his favor. At least those unlucky people were under the barrel of a gun. Their lives were threatened, their families were attacked, and their very existence was destroyed. Kerry was facing nothing of the sort. He only had to stay firm and let the process go through for several days longer. But he caved in. In Bush We Trust. Drang Nah Osten, Onward to the Middle East, kameraden.
I am looking at the map of the elections and it is covered with blood. Red patches all over our beloved USA. The Nazi flag was also red with an arachnid swastika in the middle. We have enough space for the swastika now, more than enough. Eleven states had passed the amendments prohibiting gay marriage. Talking about unity. We are at war; our children are dying far away, in the unknown land and we had just divided ourselves even more. Nazis killed the homosexuals; they also proclaimed the union between a man and a woman sacred and necessary to procreate the healthy Arian offspring. Lo and behold, they passed the Nuremberg 1936 laws prohibiting the Jews and other minorities to marry or even engage in sexual intercourse with the pure Germans. Senator Kerry, when you gave your concession speech, did you consider that it was the day of infamy when people in this country would be openly discriminated in their very basic right to be happy in the union? What the Hell were you thinking?
America, assume the position and better enjoy thyself. The coven of rapists and pillagers in power are on the move. We put them there, we helped them to become invinsible, we sold our freedom for the cheap soup of gay marriages, abortion debates and fear of the minorities and now we eat our own dung for the first time and not for the last time. Be prepared. Those HitlerJugend, those boys and girls who danced in shorts around the fires , they all died in that fire and no one of them enjoyed the security and prosperity promised. Neither will we. We are cursed. The Iraqi mother cursed us all from the silver screen of Fahrenheit 9/11. And whoever God wants to destroy, He first takes his mind away. So, what is left is to bury the Donkey, drink Michelob and dance around the corpse of the Democratic Party. Republican Empire beyond all. Till Death do us part. Our Death that is.
Mark Sshine
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Mark Sashine (46 articles, 19 quicklinks, 235 diaries, 3359 comments)
on Friday, May 12, 2006 at 1:04:14 PM
If only Americans knew--we put the Nazies in power
Just like a tread mill--jewish authors like to remind us Hitler and his jackboots thugs--PLEASE STOP THE BULL!
We funded Hitler and set that regime to punish Russia.
Do a Google search of Fritz Thyssen and connect Bush
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george arch (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 25 comments)
on Saturday, May 13, 2006 at 10:14:27 AM
