http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/europe/jan-june12/hitlerland_06-20.html
Well, this is a perfectly nice PBS Newshour video interviewing the author of a book about Americans in Germany during the 20's and 30's and their premonitions/lack of premonitions about what was to come. Surely, this won't be fodder for partisan-... Oh....
""The greatest evil that mankind has ever known" ~ Give me a break! Not even close... Isn't it about time that the hyperbole and propaganda driven false information hysteria stops? Stalin killed close to 30 million in forced slave labor with the aid and assistance of their ally the great USA even during the war against Hitler and Mao killed closed to 70 million. North Korea killed a yet unknown number and Genghis Kahn was responsible for the death of at least 10% of the worlds population at that time. His son Kubla was no Boy Scout either. None of them were Humane enough to gas like the Humane Society does puppies either... "
"Roll the film forward to 2009. How many of the most perceptive people in the world would have guessed that 90% of the American congress would have approved of the slaughter of 410 Palestinian children-----and the daily racism of the Lobby against the Moslems and the daily hysteria of the Israelis pushing the world to another war--out of self-dramatized fears? "
"What's the point of this article? Some reporters talking about other reporters? They were supposed to be able to prognosticate, to predict, that Hitler was a bad man? Would they have preferred the communists, and then it would have been a united communist Russia and Germany?
Does PBS make it up as they go along? I truly despise being forced to support the left-wing bigots at PBS with my tax dollars."
"Before he became Pope Pius XII, Eugenio Pacelli was the toast of Berlin, invited to official state functions. After Hitler became Chancellor, Pacelli, then Pope Pius XX signed a Concordat in 1933 with Hitler that evolved into an agreement that the Vatican would not interfere with Hitler's plans. It is almost certain, given the hatred of the Jews that Catholics demonstrated, that Pacelli knew that awful things were going to happen. It is a lot like our own government. At least 6 Presidents and all of Congress knew about Catholic priests molesting young boys and they said and did nothing in much the same way that Pope Pius said and did nothing to stop the genocide of Jews. "
"The really scary thing is, the Republican party has evolved over the past ten years, under the strict guidance of a marketing genius with German heritage- Karl Rove- precisely using many of the same fear & character attack techniques used by Hitler to gain power. Yes, really scary."
"Hitler was a hero of WWI who had no power until he got funding from the Zionist. that is the ZI of Nazi. The Zionist have escaped justice all these years in Israel. Now that is a story that has not been hear before."
"Why do we not investigate the rise of Stalin and Mao as we do Hitler? Seems like there are great stories of these mass murderers waiting for print. Hitler did us a favor actually, we now know what the outline of a potential dictator looks like, which is not good news for Obama."
"When I first saw the title for this article I thought, "Wow someone in the media is really going to discuss what's going on here in the United States"! Needless to say I'm disappointed."
Like, WTF. There wasn't even anything controversial/political in this video. There goes any self-important ego-stroking I thought I could get by watching PBS.
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