RE: How Did Hitler Affect White Germans?
March 31, 2016 at 10:32 am
(This post was last modified: March 31, 2016 at 10:34 am by abaris.)
(March 31, 2016 at 10:13 am)Rhondazvous Wrote: But I wonder is this true? How did Hitler affect white Germans? What is the cost of a brown shirt?
Honestly, I don't quite understand the question. What do you mean by white Germans?
As for the rest of your post, a purely subjective perspective from observation. Americans don't fear fascism or even embrace it in certain instances, because they didn't have to face the consequences of war for the last 150 years on their own soil. They didn't see the destruction since Sherman marched through the old South. They are conditioned to greet the flag at any given opportunity, to swear an oath of allegiance at school, to glorify the armed forces. There's only a very narrow ridge between an overblown patriotism, nationalism and fascism.
Add to this quite a lot of blockbuster movies and TV shows that would never be made in the same way in Europe. Such as War movies featuring fighting as some kind of great and inspiring adventure. Something like John Wayne riding into the sunset. Something that could have come straight from Goebbels entertainmment industry.
From my perspective, quite a lot of things in American life are geared towards inspiring militant nationalism. And in an Orwellian way, people tend to respond to all of that. They always did in different parts of the world.