(March 31, 2016 at 10:13 am)Rhondazvous Wrote: It has occurred to me that in November we may be asked to choose between Miss WikiLeaks or the Hitlerian reincarnation. In that case voters may very well choose fascism over compromised national security. This would not be the case if Americans feared fascism as much as they do socialism. My fear is that many white Americans may not feel they have anything to fear from a police state. After all, they are white. The police are here to serve and protect them.
But I wonder is this true? How did Hitler affect white Germans? What is the cost of a brown shirt?
I guess you wanted to ask how Hitler rule affected Germans.
While Reich was police state it was ruled more by fear* than oppression at least if we take USSR as model of oppression. It does not mean that being "Aryan" made one safe but people more or less knew what "crime" will be followed by repressions. If one had a job, wasn't "mentally ill"**, wasn't homosexual and did not oppose the regime then one was safe or "safe", considering how many people army needed and what were Hitler plans.
Even when one was "Aryan" life in Reich wasn't without cost - regime wanted to be applauded, food wasn't exactly plentiful, Gestapo was though to be everywhere, charity was more like another tax than something that one done freely.
If you want a good picture of life in III Reich I recommend Richard Evans The Third Reich in Power, Götz Aly Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State and Stephen Marks Warum folgten sie Hitler. It will give you nice overview of subject.
*There was much enthusiasm too and support wasn't confined to fringes of society but I guess it is not relevant context of this post.
**Life unworthy of living.
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
Mikhail Bakunin.
Mikhail Bakunin.
