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edhopper

(33,208 posts)
Sun Jan 20, 2019, 12:22 PM Jan 2019

Hitler's scorched earth

When he knew Germany had lost, he turned on the German people.

“If the war is lost, the people will be lost also. It is not necessary to worry about what the German people will need for elemental survival. On the contrary, it is best for us to destroy even these things. For the nation has proved to be the weaker, and the future belongs solely to the stronger eastern nations. In any case, only those who are inferior will remain after this struggle, for the good have already been killed.”


Trump knows he lost, he is issuing his own Nero Decree.

If he can't have his wall, fuck America.
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Hitler's scorched earth (Original Post) edhopper Jan 2019 OP
Please correct me if I am wrong...I am not a historian... Ferrets are Cool Jan 2019 #1
Perhaps edhopper Jan 2019 #2
We are in a strange, unsettling place when Ferrets are Cool Jan 2019 #3
And he and his goons mostly blamed the Jews. Archae Jan 2019 #5
So many similarities... Ferrets are Cool Jan 2019 #6
K&R Judging from the quote, in the OP, their lack of care about other people was close to equal. Jeffersons Ghost Jan 2019 #4

Ferrets are Cool

(21,063 posts)
1. Please correct me if I am wrong...I am not a historian...
Sun Jan 20, 2019, 12:26 PM
Jan 2019

but Hitler probably cared more about the people of Germany than the "orange criminal" EVER cared about anyone in America.

edhopper

(33,208 posts)
2. Perhaps
Sun Jan 20, 2019, 12:28 PM
Jan 2019

but at the end, when he was in the Bunker facing defeat, he felt the German people let him down and wanted German to die with him.

He cared about the German people running the world, but he sent millions to their death.

Trump cares about the "right kind of American"

Ferrets are Cool

(21,063 posts)
3. We are in a strange, unsettling place when
Sun Jan 20, 2019, 12:46 PM
Jan 2019

there is a discussion of who cared more about their country, Hitler or the current pResident.

Archae

(46,262 posts)
5. And he and his goons mostly blamed the Jews.
Sun Jan 20, 2019, 12:58 PM
Jan 2019

Goebbels in one of his diaries wrote, "The Jews are to blame for everything."

Trump is the same way, but he blames an equally imaginary "enemy," the "far left."

And his cronies like Ann Coulter, Hannity and most of the rest of Faux "news" willingly and happily agrees.

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