agrellagalega :
I get your general point and I agree with it, but oh boy, did you lick a wrong analogy to use with Nazi Germany. First, Hitler was not democratically elected, I could get into the details and extend myself, but keeping it short he was appointed by a right wing President who by then was already running things basically only through emergency powers and removing elected left wing officials he did not like. Hitler was popular, his party was the one with more votes, but his popularity is somewhat overstated, his party had less votes than the combined votes of people who actively hated him (the SPD and the KPD had more votes together than the Nazi party, the problem is they also hated each other and Hindenburg hated them both). Also, you understate the amount of atrocities and repression done inside Germany, we have Kristalnacht, which mainly happened in Germany, we have a lot of the concentration camps that happened in Germany (in fact, they started in Germany, Dachau is famous for a reason), the book burnings and prosecution of intellectuals, leftists and Jews, which happened in Germany. Yes, the horrible massacres and biggest atrocities were done mostly in the Eastern front (France is a weird mention, not that France did not suffer, but I would say it was the same level as things in Germany), but it is not like Hitler just made himself dictatorship and nothing changed outside for people in Germany, even if we only include normal German citizens life was completely changed and put under the total service for the ideology, and protesting about of that even a little bit would land you in a concentration camp and again that happened even before the war. To put it into perspective and use a very famous real example, Niemöller, who was a conservative antisemitic anti-communist protestant ethnic German who voted for Hitler (basically the ideal German by Nazis standards), later became disillusioned and just founded organisation that spoke against his ecclesiastical policies with the tactic of strong worded polite letters, was put in Sachsenhausen in 1937.
2026-07-04 08:45:38