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Hitler did not rise out of a vacuum: Many people assume that another Hitler can rise up in any nation, but that's not necessarily so. Hitler's rise in Germany was not a forgone conclusion in Germany, but there were a number of conditions that made that country especially susceptible to it.
The Germans were a warlike people who were used to capitulating to authority and they had a long, rich philosophical bent towards hatred of the Jews and racial superiority. They also had minimal experience with democracy, a terrible economic crisis, the Versailles Treaty, which was an almost universally despised...
10 Lessons We Can Learn From The Rise Of The Nazis
2. Is narrative too complicated for conservatives?
3. 'The Germans were a warlike people who were used to capitulating to authority.' Sounds like the Republican Party
4. Having just fought a World War that left seven million people dead and unleashed a 'flu pandemic and the Russian Revolution, only conservatives could think that trying to avoid another one was a bad idea.
5. Thanks for showing up on time again for that one, America BTW.
6. Winston Chruchill was a great man who saved democracy in Europe and the world. He also thought the British Empire was a good idea. Historical analogies only work so far. You might as well quote Cicero or Plato.
7. Sorry Cicero and Plato are...