Oh yes, the Third Reich just dropped out of nowhere, without taking cues from manifest destiny or the British concentration camps in Africa, without building upon the "race science" groundwork colonialism had laid, without getting German elites accquainted with mass murder in the form of the Herero and Nama genocide in Namibia, and without building a base of revanchist, desensitized recruits in the trenches of WW1, the death rattle of imperialist German monarchism.
Any enlightened centrist upholding the sacred dogma of the fascist singularity knows that none of that mattered, the whole Hitler kerfuffle was an absolutely unprecedented event that just happened and that we can't learn anything from except calling anybody who dares to criticize colonialism an antisemite. Unless they're black or muslim, then we'll call them antisemites regardless of that.
Certainly this is the perfect route towards avoiding another nazi oopsie from happening, as is evidenced by the stellar track record libs have had in recent years in fighting back the onslaught of fascis ... oh, i mean "mildly controversial takes about too much wokeness" - wouldn't cheapen the gravity of the word fascism by calling people who merely think that Hitler did nothing wrong fascists! Fascism was singularly evil, so it'll definitely never happen again!
Oh yes, the Third Reich just dropped out of nowhere
It's crazy how much of the way we teach ww2 acts like this is the case. Hitler was so good at giving speeches that he tricked everyone into thinking Jews were bad.
I'd believe that he was good at rallying the base tbh, but the idea that he somehow convinced otherwise fine Germans to do the holocaust through the power of rhetoric is pure ideology
One of his big "innovations" was using airplanes to campaign and hold rallys all across Germany (technically it was Gorbbles idea). But like you said, that'd would just give you a slight advantage, the German people were hungry for blood regardless of Hitler's speeches.
Oh yes, the Third Reich just dropped out of nowhere, without taking cues from manifest destiny or the British concentration camps in Africa, without building upon the "race science" groundwork colonialism had laid, without getting German elites accquainted with mass murder in the form of the Herero and Nama genocide in Namibia, and without building a base of revanchist, desensitized recruits in the trenches of WW1, the death rattle of imperialist German monarchism.
Any enlightened centrist upholding the sacred dogma of the fascist singularity knows that none of that mattered, the whole Hitler kerfuffle was an absolutely unprecedented event that just happened and that we can't learn anything from except calling anybody who dares to criticize colonialism an antisemite. Unless they're black or muslim, then we'll call them antisemites regardless of that.
Certainly this is the perfect route towards avoiding another nazi oopsie from happening, as is evidenced by the stellar track record libs have had in recent years in fighting back the onslaught of fascis ... oh, i mean "mildly controversial takes about too much wokeness" - wouldn't cheapen the gravity of the word fascism by calling people who merely think that Hitler did nothing wrong fascists! Fascism was singularly evil, so it'll definitely never happen again!
It's crazy how much of the way we teach ww2 acts like this is the case. Hitler was so good at giving speeches that he tricked everyone into thinking Jews were bad.
Yeah, i'm extra double sceptical of anybody telling me how convincing and charismatic Hitler was. I mean, seriously, look at that fucking dweeb.
I'd believe that he was good at rallying the base tbh, but the idea that he somehow convinced otherwise fine Germans to do the holocaust through the power of rhetoric is pure ideology
One of his big "innovations" was using airplanes to campaign and hold rallys all across Germany (technically it was Gorbbles idea). But like you said, that'd would just give you a slight advantage, the German people were hungry for blood regardless of Hitler's speeches.
He just wrote one hell of a book. People read it and said "wow I'm a fascist now".
controlling people's minds with clunky, pretentious prose
Is there a good book on how much the nazis took inspiration from America?
Yes. Mein Kampf. IIRC Hitler specifically refers to native genocide and the subjugation of PoC in America as models for his third reich.