Like, CIA troops are fighting Pentagon troops in Syria. Suppression of the political opposition and creeping hard power is being carried out by local police departments and unions. The historectomies in ICE camps were being carried out by a rogue contractor. It doesn't even feel like a movement so much as the aggregate effort of thousands of disparate forces.

  • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Iirc things were pretty disorganized in Nazi Germany itself. You had various organizations and institutions constantly going behind each other's backs and competing against each other so that they'd be the ones to win the fuhrer's favor. From Wikipedia:

    Hitler's leadership style was to give contradictory orders to his subordinates and to place them into positions where their duties and responsibilities overlapped with those of others, to have "the stronger one [do] the job". In this way, Hitler fostered distrust, competition, and infighting among his subordinates to consolidate and maximise his own power.

    • Zezima [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Also research the concept of "working towards the fuhrer" which explains the power structure of Nazi germany well, designed by Ian Kershaw

    • Blarglefargle [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      This is a key reason for the Nazi’s horrific intelligence networks and Recon capabilities during the war. The intelligence orgs were fighting more against eachother then the allies and the recon groups were given zero resources. The result was the sheer stupidity that was the Nazi predictions for Barbarossa and hilarious shit like ever Nazi agent present in the UK being flipped by Mi5 to feed false info and the Nazi’s not realizing