Saturday, July 28, 2012

How Hitler Came To Power

Worth reading by way of review.

Excerpt:
...[T]he National Socialists never captured more than 37 percent of the national vote...

[...]

...Hitler returned to the Reichstag every four years to renew the “temporary” delegation of emergency powers that it had given him to deal with the Reichstag-arson crisis. Needless to say, the Reichstag rubber-stamped each of his requests...
Read it ALL.

Draw your own conclusions.

Also keep in mind the story "The Boy Who Cried Wolf."

Hitler comparisons have been so often drawn that, in my view, most are incapable of realizing when the wolf really is coming in the door.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

"National Socialist Workers Party" NAZI.

Unions and Gov hand in hand.

Social revolution.

Sounds familiar?

WC said...

That's the danger of a Parliament form of government vs a Republic. http://www.examiner.com/article/the-downside-to-democracy-and-the-arab-spring?cid=db_articles