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Goblins Under the Apple Tree's avatar

It is becoming clearer to me that Hitler and the Nazis were not only manufactured to achieve political aims before the war but also came in handy afterwards. Would that image of America Land of Freedom “beauteous on the hill” etc. be anything like as influential without the existence of some fiendish enemy – as demonic as possible? And the Nazis were always way more impressive than those distant (and frankly boring) Soviet apparatchiks.

Ever since WW2, Hitler and the Nazis have been endlessly referenced, the villains in any number of movies, with old Nazis popping up everywhere and new ones arriving every year. Best of all. The psychobabble initiated by The Frankfurt School is happy to blame the general population whose “psychological weakness” and “compulsion towards fascism” we never stop hearing about. All this whilst the Anglo-American clubs happily financed the Nazis and even had the cheek to rehabilitate them after the war.

But no! The victims get the blame!

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Shadiya's avatar

Book on order, thanks for the recommendation. I can't deny that my heart sank somewhat at the thought of yet another blooming rabbit hole, so good to hear it's an interesting read, some are just hard work.

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