25 Replies to “A Riddle of History”

  1. An important and needed discussion. When the next major economic depression happens – it’s already happening, we’re just borrowing trillions so the public doesn’t feel it more than they already are – it is going to beyond anything we’ve seen in history. I’m a stupid optimist, so I keep thinking we’ll find our way through.

  2. Powerful analysis brought here. “Michael Burley’s new ‘History of the Third Reich’ is, I think, the only book that captures the enormous power of Hitler, as a demonic and charismatic leader, capable of displacing Christian ethics, and that is the critical thing. Hitler calls on German society to renounce Christian ethics and that is why, by the early 1940s, educated German men are engaged in the kind of barbaric behaviour that we associate wit the Holocaust.”

    Yet we continue to displace Christian ethics with anything and everything else we can and wonder why western society continues to sink lower and lower.

  3. The economic theory on Nazism never made sense. They had the National Socialists on the right because the filthy communists don’t want to own them. Nazis were the opposite of free market capitalists, very much a directed economy.

    1. What you are referring to is the Nazi economic theory of Autarky or ‘self sufficiency’. National Socialist ideology hated imports and exports because it thought that trade enriched poor nations at the expense of advanced industrial nations. This was essentially the same as the Soviet economic practise under Stalin.

      It is certainly true that both were completely state-controlled economies. Like all socialisms, their methods were the same: identify a target group, kill them all, and steal everything they owned. For National Socialists, the targets are the Jews. For Marxist Socialists, the targets are the bourgeoisie.

      I agree with you that none of this made any sense, but that’s what happens when people are members of an insane religious cult.

    2. Mussolini was a Socialist but finally had his doubts about “workers of the world unite” and replaced it with “Italian workers, unite”. Hence the Nationalist tinge of Fascism vs Socialism. Hitler was a fascist, but included his pet peeve in there (Jews) as an additional needed enemy and invented the German National-Socialists Worker’s Party. The “close cooperation” of business and government in fascism was pretty much done then, as it is being done now with information and media companies. Wanna survive? Play ball. If you play ball real good, you also get rich and powerful.

      Who is public enemy number one in the current system? Asking for a pasty white guy.

    3. Totalitarian, it matters not what name it is given. When one man controls all, then it is a dictatorship, by any other name.

  4. The German problem then and now has always been resources.. They make up for it by doing near everything better than everybody else.. This includes socialism..

    Take note that socialism in the hands of useless people is a disaster.. Plan accordingly..

    1. It’s true. They do do nearly everything better than everybody else. Maybe not everything, but nearly everything.

  5. A Review of Michael Burleigh’s “Sacred Causes: The Clash of Religion and Politics”
    titled “Defender of the Faith”

    […]Burleigh’s second, related objective is to redeem modern history from what he characteristically calls the “intellectually dishonest’” Stalin-like attempts “to airbrush Christianity out of the historical record.”
    Actually he doesn’t mean Christianity but rather the Roman Catholic Church; and this is where the problems begin.
    […]
    Fully one-third of “Sacred Causes” is devoted to the Nazi era and to a defense of the Church, Pope Pius XII in particular, against charges (“the cruder — Soviet-inspired — ‘black legend,’ ” in Burleigh’s words) — that the Vatican failed to oppose Nazism and was thus at least passively complicit in the Holocaust. In Burleigh’s reading, Pius can do almost no wrong. Indeed, according to Burleigh, he was simply too subtle to be appreciated today, in “this age of the resonant sound bite and ubiquitous rent-a-moralists.” To be sure, Burleigh concedes that Pius’s “punctilious adherence” to “outward neutrality” eventually “would lessen his capacity to play a prophetic role in the war,” though he goes on to quote approvingly Pius’s own justification for silence, in December 1942: “The Pope cannot speak. If he spoke, things would be worse.” (Worse? By December 1942? How?)

    Others might argue that Pius’s silences greatly facilitated the work of extermination in those countries where the Roman Catholic Church exercised social and moral authority and where its own representatives actively collaborated in mass murder. Burleigh anticipates this objection with a characteristic sneer: “Only people with no understanding of how the Catholic Church operates can hold the Vatican responsible for fanatic elements in its own lower clergy.” Perhaps. But Burleigh himself invokes the hierarchical, centralized authority of Catholicism and the Vatican when explaining why so many German Catholics, unlike Protestants, were immune to the charms of Hitler. He wants it both ways.[…]

    https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/11/books/review/Judt.t.html

  6. The great conundrum we have been left with since the Third Reich is why our educated elite refer to the Nazi party as being on the right and thus demonize everybody on the right as Nazi. The Nazis were a socialist party that socialized the German economy. They coerced the German capitalists through threat and blackmail and dictated their demands for a state structured economy. This is the exact plan that Democrats and Liberals are using today. Dictates that we will be forced to buy EVs, dictates that we will be forced to abandon gas appliances, dictates that we will be forced to accept travel papers. dictates that we will be forced to accept injections! Why people cannot make the connection to 1930’s Germany is beyond me. Industry is being forced down the same road that Hitler opened in the Thirties. Look at Trudeau demanding to know from the mob, “What are we to do with these people?”! Thankfully he is not the orator that Hitler was. Look at how the protests in America on January 2021 and in Canada in February 2022 were handled. Then look back at how the American election in 2020 was conducted and tell me you don’t understand how Hitler came to power. Look at the fiasco occurring in the Justice system, the education system, the communication sector, and the Armed Forces in America today and tell me how they differ from the practices of Freisler, Goebbels, Goring and the rest. The players may have changed but the playbook remains the same.

    1. Yes. Hitler saw International Socialism under Stalin as merely Russian Imperialism. While staying socialist, he attempted a form of socialism reflecting German imperialism. Thus National Socialism.

  7. Quoted in Niall Ferguson’s ‘The War Of The World’:

    “There are two breeds of Bolshevism…..there is nothing to choose between the philosophies of Moscow and Berlin.”
    Duff Cooper, British politician, First Lord of the Admiralty – August 23, 1939.

  8. One of the biggest examples that I overlooked above was the constant attempt to disarm the population.

  9. Leonard Peikoff’s book The Ominous Parallels lays out the progression of ideas that led to Hitler

  11. In the right sociological environment such as an ethnically uniform, patriotic, industrious, and nationalistic like Germany, Japan, or Italy, charismatic and uniting leaders emerged and energized the populace. Pierre Trudeau and Barak Obama, experienced similar meteoric rises in popularity but were divisive and not in the right settings to become Hitler regardless of their similarities. Canada barely exists as a coherent nation anymore and the US is also a politically and culturally bifurcated and exhausted empire.

    1. “such as an ethnically uniform, patriotic, industrious, and nationalistic …”

      It’s almost like these are traits that are beng eliminated on purpose, but what do I know….

  12. The FILTHY LIBERAL Germans (the non Barbarian kind) are DONE.
    They farm Brazilians for work in Germany. I met a pile there, they are hot Brazilian Chicks until they start speaking the worst language in history, German.

    Look at German Hillary, no kids, old. Germans don’t have kids. FILTHY Koranderthals will own Germany in 10 years.

  13. Germans’ initial susceptibility to NAZIsm was predictable for a nation with legitimate cause to believe themselves superior to most other peoples. Their penchants for order, punctuality, precision, fitness, and other anal-retentive characteristics separated Germans’ views of their excellence across many fields of endeavour from the similarly impressive accomplishments of the joie-de-vivre french and the muddle-through English.

    Contrast the arrogant German of 1933 – 1943 with French disarray and English adventurism and you see how Hitler so easily led such people, using the legitimate resentment of The Fatherland’s humiliation at Versailles and Germans’ pride of nation, to rise against their European oppressors, Jews and “untermenschen” being convenient proxies for egoistic revenge.

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