2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: WaPo: Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem. [View all]Diclotican
(5,095 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
One of my hobbies have been reading about history - it have being something I have been doing since I learned to read and never stopped doing...
The rise of Hitler was a complex one, he started out as a failure - and ended up leading/ruling one of the greatest nations in Europe, and by far also one of the most advanced nations in the early 20th century... They also made a lot of the theoretical groundwork for one of the most dangerous, and mighty weapons of the 20th century, the theory of nuclear fission... But for some reason or another - the theoretical ideas never ended in a german nuclear weapon (thankfully) One reason was Hitlers stubbornness about nuclear fission at all, he clearly stated many times over the later years of the war - that nuclear fission was something they might was able to break - in the future, after world war two was ended, and Germany was the master of the world... Then they might had the resources to split the atom... And one other reason was that Germany doesn't had the resources to make a bomb, not as the war progressed, and the industry heartland of Germany was bombed to small pieces... A 3th reason was the fact that many who could have been used to explore the possibility of a german nuclear weapon, had to flee germany after 1933, because their ancestry was "troublesome" and got a free place in UK, and later on in the US where they was instrumental in making a working nuclear bomb, who exploded first time in New Mexico, later on the Japanese city's of Hiroshima and Nagasaki... Even though the bomb originally was planed for the German Capital Berlin.. But the germans surrounded before the bomb was ready, and therefore was never used over Berlin...
Well, even if internet had existed in the 1920s and 1930s I doubt it would have mattered to much - as we know from US the last decade it doesn't work when some cheat and steal their way to victory... Even if the opponent had won the election, and everyone got to bed sure about that the best man had won - and surprise, next day the worst candidate won the election... Thankfully he was not able to start world war 3, but dam he came close sometimes... He managed to piss off both Europe, and China in a couple of months - and from there it was just going downhill for 8 straight years... And Germany by 1933 had plenty of times to get to know the thugs of SA, and the thugs at the other NSDAP organizations that by 1933 in fact was a state inside the State, and have all type of sympathetic groups, people who wanted NSDAP to succeed, and off course wanted to get power after NSDAP's victory... The "internet" of the age. the telegraph had proven what the nazis-ts was, long before they get into power in 1933... And even with all the evidences of what a regime Hitler could end up as - Many truthful believed that Hitler at least would make the country stable, and make the country in some form of normalize.. But it is also important to know, Hitler never won a outright election in Germany.. Even when he had the support of the State, and could use all the state resources to make everyone listen to what he had to say, by radio, by air by train, by telegraph and so one - just 37.9 percent of germans ever voted NSDAP in any election.. And after 1934, no general election was ever held in Germany - and was not meant to be either as Hitler used that tool, just to Trump out support for one or another "election"... And after 1938, where Austria was "voted" into the arm of Greater Germany no election was needed.. The war was around the corner and in 1939 the war started in earnest..
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