On Netflix: "Hitler's Circle of Evil." So many parallels to today.
The other day, flipping thru Netflix offerings, I ran across a series titled "Hitler's Circle of Evil" and started watching it. I've read a lot about the war in Europe and am fascinated by that whole 30s and 40s period, so I thought it would be interesting.
What I was not expecting was to see so many similarities between the Nazi party's build-up and today's government: the quest for total power, the in-fighting, the nobodies who rose to power by kissing up to Hitler (Himmler and Goebbels, for instance), the backstabbing, the developing attitude towards the Jews, and so on and on. And I'm still on Episode 3.
It's really easy to just sit back and go, yeah, DJT and his buddies are like the Nazis -- to make a value judgement without any historical perspective. So watching that story unfold is totally worth it even if just for the history. But the parallels are really scary.
