By this we don’t mean that their crazy politics were some kind of way forward in general, but that the Hitlerite rats, as the Soviets deliciously called them, would never have been able to gain the footing they needed to launch the Eastern European annexation campaign that resulted in the World War.
They effectively had a full and firm grasp on Austria, and represented a total cancelation of fascism. To invade Austria, it was essencial to the national socialists that #1 they didn’t seriously resist and #2 there was a strong local national socialist component.
Briefly, the national socialist agenda was to annex certain key points in eastern Europe. Those had, they aspired to either come together with or nullify England and France, which they would have the resources now to come to the negotiating table about. Their estimation was that they would probably rather need to be nullified, cowed into insignificance. This accomplished, the complete annexation of Russia.
It was carefully designed domino per domino, because they only had enough strength at any one time to tackle one particular objective.
Austria was a key domino. Without it, it all would have fizzled into the flash in the pan everybody thought it would be.
They had to do it this way because their socialist policies were already veering Germany into bankrupcy, and they had looted all the Jewish people of their wealth. So now they needed to loot other countries. Socialism isn’t terribly creative.
They couldn’t save up to do the war all the military men imagined which would have started in 1942, because they were bleeding capital rather than raising it.
The story of German high command plots against Hitler is itself engrossing though. Mainly because they tended to agree with him on almost everything, and simply wanted to stop him wasting the Wermacht’s power without actual hopes of suiccess.
Being German military men, they failed to understand that it was an economic imperative. It was war now or bankruptcy later.
Is it WWII you want to discuss, or how Christianity & its denominations (mis)align with socialism, capitalism, etc.? If it violates self=other, call it antichristian. The End.
Catholicism doesn’t admit of it, because every Catholic is a son of God. Perfect individualism. For a protestant, God is not a father of individuals, but a fence of a collective mass.
One of the early crusades was against German proto-protestants, still then called heretics, ranting about, wouldn’t you know it, killing all the Jews.
These things, these myths, aren’t happenstancical evolutionary remnants, but actual policy propaganda as far back as the first year of national socialist dictatorship. The Wermacht was consciously branded as a national socialist creation.
The fat generals allowed it because it meant money finally, and it meant at least rejecting the Versailles restrictions.
A few years before, though, von Seeckt had threatened to shoot Hitler in the face. So did his successor.
But the middle rank military class was on the ascendant, because their socialism was the only political force that simply did not give a shit about legality, geopolitical constraints, or any kind of decency.
von Seeck didn’t say no when the national socialists asked him to inspect the troops: he created them. But he was very much part of a class within the military that had been pushed out.
In a sense, von Seeckt’s strict antipolitics made the Reichswer vulnerable to follow the orders of anybody who happened to be giving them.
What he and that whole class envisioined was a return to a Monarchism where everybody went peaceably about their business, the military was built up, strong relations were forged with the Christian powers and, eventually, war with Russia. I can’t be happy about war with Russia, but I can’t hate fighting the major socialist force.
It was the measured sanity of this conservatism that made it a fantasy: it was too easy for faffy liberals to stop it in its tracks. All they had to do was make a law, or even a fuss in the legislative chamber, and a man like von Seeckt could be pushed out.
The weakness Catholics had was the same one Jews had: the back of the mind belief that God would never allow true horror to happen. Complacency.
It’s also a thing that happens in all socialist revolutions: people just aren’t used to thinking as fast as events begin to happen. The extermination of the Jewish people began the very day National Socialism took the Chancelory. It just all seems too ridiculous to be real.
For the Godless, of course, nothing is too ridiculous.
Because PZR isn’t taking messages, I have to address him openly.
Could you refrain from writing one-liners? It makes the threads unnecessarily long and you normally follow up with a second, third or even fourth one-liner, which could all be part of one post.