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| Topic | Does anyone know German history post WW2? How did the nazis stop being nazis? |
| CW_McGraw 01/10/21 2:21:51 PM #23: | Firewerx posted... I'd guess that many Germans found the most compelling argument against Nazism was the disastrous consequences for their ruined, divided, occupied country of having followed it.Largely this. Why would anyone but the most strident ideological believers in Nazism continue to espouse that system in the aftermath of a losing war it directly caused? The appeal of Nazism at its heights for the average German was that it didn't disrupt your life and the country appeared to be getting better by some metrics, none of which was true by 1945. Germany was soundly defeated, worse than it ever had been in WWI, and their leader killed himself like a coward after seeing the depths of his failures. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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