RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
December 15, 2018 at 7:11 am
(This post was last modified: December 15, 2018 at 7:11 am by Maketakunai.)
Out of curiosity, what is there to be gained by trying to make people believe that the German people weren't directly responsible for Hitler's rise to power?
Tell me, do you imagine that winning with 43.9% of the vote was the result of people voting for Hitler because they were afraid of him and wanted him to have even more power?
Do you imagine that all the German Jews, homosexuals, and Jehovah's Witnesses rushed out to cast their votes for the Nazis because they all knew Hitler hated them?
There were 13 other political parties in the 1933 election. 12% of the population did not vote. The party with the second most votes, the KDP, only received 18.3% of the vote. Are you aware that even if the 12% of the people who didn't vote chose not to due to intimidation that if every single one of them had voted for the KDP that Hitler and the Nazi party still would have won by popular vote?
Your continued insistence on rewriting history just doesn't withstand serious scrutiny. The evidence shows that, if anything, the Nazi campaign of intimidation and dirty tricks against their political opponents prior to the 3 elections in '32 and '33 actually increased their support among the people. I realize this discussion has placed a lot of importance on 3 elections, but the Nazi party, with Adolph Hitler as the de facto leader, was voted into power by the German people as the culmination of a long series of legal elections almost a decade long. No one disputes that the Nazis did a lot of dirty dealing to get to the January 1933 election. However, ultimately it was the German people who put Hitler in absolute power through the democratic process they, themselves, approved of.
You can call it whatever you want to. You can not like it. Denying is just stupid, though.
Tell me, do you imagine that winning with 43.9% of the vote was the result of people voting for Hitler because they were afraid of him and wanted him to have even more power?
Do you imagine that all the German Jews, homosexuals, and Jehovah's Witnesses rushed out to cast their votes for the Nazis because they all knew Hitler hated them?
There were 13 other political parties in the 1933 election. 12% of the population did not vote. The party with the second most votes, the KDP, only received 18.3% of the vote. Are you aware that even if the 12% of the people who didn't vote chose not to due to intimidation that if every single one of them had voted for the KDP that Hitler and the Nazi party still would have won by popular vote?
Your continued insistence on rewriting history just doesn't withstand serious scrutiny. The evidence shows that, if anything, the Nazi campaign of intimidation and dirty tricks against their political opponents prior to the 3 elections in '32 and '33 actually increased their support among the people. I realize this discussion has placed a lot of importance on 3 elections, but the Nazi party, with Adolph Hitler as the de facto leader, was voted into power by the German people as the culmination of a long series of legal elections almost a decade long. No one disputes that the Nazis did a lot of dirty dealing to get to the January 1933 election. However, ultimately it was the German people who put Hitler in absolute power through the democratic process they, themselves, approved of.
You can call it whatever you want to. You can not like it. Denying is just stupid, though.