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Also it started with an attack on a capitol, the German "Reichstag".
1933, four weeks after being elected, Hitler used the "Reichstag fire" as a pretext to claim it was the start of an insurrection, issuing mass arrests of political opponents and suspending most civil liberties, including habeas corpus, freedom of expression, freedom of the press, the right of free association and public assembly, and the secrecy of postal services and telephone by decree.

Some lone nut (Van der Lubbe) being solely responsible the Nazis sought to make it appear to be communist insurgents that set the fire.
Some historians believe that the arson had been planned and ordered by the Nazis as a false flag operation.

source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire

See... with niche, historically accurate comments like this... I'm beginning to think you actually might be a Colonel. Well done and upvoted for knowing your stuff.

Oh, the irony

Well, to be fair, it technically started when the Allies, specifically France, imposed massive reparations payments on Germany after WWI. The economic disaster that followed enabled the rise of a demagogue into such a position.

To be sure, this does not remove any blame from the German people for being duped by the Nazi party into becoming its tool, but it's important to remember retribution rarely breeds long-lived success.

Yes. I think most would agree that the treaty of Versailles laid the groundwork for Hitler with its oppressive, punitive economics. Which is perhaps why the US treated Japan and Germany much better at the end of WWII.

It's interesting to view the Allies' treatment of Germany after WWI through the lens of history. At the time, weren't they claiming they just wanted to recoup their costs related to the war? This approach has not entirely left the world's political thinking, as there are those who would like to punish China economically if it can be proven they had a hand in the creation of COVID 19.

With the benefit of hindsight, and being the victor, I think blaming the German people is a trap that may be easy to fall into. Do you believe they were any more/less gullible than citizens of any other western nation at the time? If they were, do you think the economic hardships they endured would have to be considered a factor to turning a blind eye to the potential threat posed by Hitler at the time?

I think we have to consider that the German people likely didn't realize what was going on until it was too late. Once Hitler had total power, it was probably quite difficult to do anything about removing him. For grins I googled how many assassination attempts there were on Hitler. I didn't spend much time on this, but even Wikipedia had a long list, and I'm sure that was not comprehensive since it terminated with von Stauffenberg's plot in July of 1944, and there were many documented attempts after that date. Hitler was apparently, a hard man to kill. And even if he had been killed, Goering, Himmler and the rest of the gang were not going to be much better.

Read, "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" by William Shirer. It remains the definitive history on the titular subject and is one of the the major sources from which I draw my views on the matter.

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