Couldn't agree more. As a high school student, I, along with most, couldn't wrap our heads around how Germans and the world at large let the atrocities happen. But as I follow this reincarnation of fascism, I understand only too well. Hitler took advantage of the economic fallout from the Paris Treaty, which had a runaway effect on inflation. Germans focused their attention on food and shelter, and the politicians fed into that by feeding them hate against those that humiliated the Fatherland and the scapegoats he blamed for robbing Germany of their wealth.
Today's scapegoats domestically are immigrants and internationally. everyone who trades with the USA.
Couldn't agree more. As a high school student, I, along with most, couldn't wrap our heads around how Germans and the world at large let the atrocities happen. But as I follow this reincarnation of fascism, I understand only too well. Hitler took advantage of the economic fallout from the Paris Treaty, which had a runaway effect on inflation. Germans focused their attention on food and shelter, and the politicians fed into that by feeding them hate against those that humiliated the Fatherland and the scapegoats he blamed for robbing Germany of their wealth.
Today's scapegoats domestically are immigrants and internationally. everyone who trades with the USA.
This is such a beautiful piece of prose I had to read it several times. Both true and eloquent.