Comments by "Bruce Tucker" (@brucetucker4847) on "Why “All Germans Were Nazis” - How Hitler Created the 3rd Reich | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1934 Part 1 of 4" video.

  1.  @voiceofraisin3778  The Americans got the idea from the camps run by the Spanish government in Cuba. But none of those had the same purpose as the Nazi camps. The governments who set up the earlier camps were fighting guerrilla uprisings that were supported by the local population. They responded by removing the population from their homes and putting them in camps where they were no longer able to provide refuge and food or other supplies to the guerrillas. That sort of thing has been happening since the ancient world, and the camps were in some ways a step toward more humane treatment in that in earlier wars the government would have just either massacred the people they suspected of aiding the rebels, or burned their homes and expelled them from the area without a care as to where they went and starved to death. The latter approach had been the traditional practice of the US government toward both Native Americans and Confederate guerrillas - the federals depopulated whole counties in Missouri where they had trouble controlling guerrilla activity. The Nazi and Soviet camps were something entirely different: they weren't meant to isolate people from rebels they were supporting - there wasn't any such rebellion going on in Germany or the USSR in the 1930s - they were giant prisons for domestic political opponents in which those opponents were deliberately starved, tortured, and worked until they were either dead or completely broken in body and spirit. Their larger purpose was to deter any thought of dissent against the ruling party's ideas and policies.
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  2. I also kinda feel that way about torchlight marches shouting antisemitic slogans, and "rallies" in which uniformed thugs beat and murder people for disagreeing with them or just being the wrong ethnicity.
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  3. Those who do not want to be put down like rabid dogs should not become Nazis.
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  4.  @TimeGhost  Call it idiocy all you want, you don't live in Charlottesville. One group came to my hometown, held a torchlight rally - marching by a statue of Thomas Jefferson, a legendary proponent of tolerance and liberal democracy - during which they shouted anti-semitic and literal Nazi slogans ("Blood and Soil!"), and the next day proceeded to riot and beat counter-protestors until they eventually murdered a young woman who was doing nothing but walking down the street. The group that did that was not Antifa or any other left-wing group. I am neither a leftist nor associated with Antifa, but I hate Nazis, and when people wear Nazi symbols, wave Nazi flags, shout Nazi slogans, and behave exactly like the S.A., I have no hesitation in calling them Nazis. And we have a serious Nazi problem in the US right now, as does much of Europe.
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  5. They are against human decency. Unfortunately decency is only one part of human nature, and all too often it is not the part that governs our actions. We can certainly see that at work all over the world today, even if the expressions are less extreme than the worst of the 1930s.
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  6.  @amberbaker8652  I wasn't disagreeing with you. Human nature can be both wonderful and horrible, and usually the easiest path is the horrible one.
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  7. What possible relevance does that have to this topic?
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  8.  @nickv1008  Röhm wasn't a psychopath, he was a deranged fanatic.
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  9.  @shastealyomeal  I'm not a tough guy but I'll stand by those words any time.
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  10.  @TimeGhost  Gotcha. I agree on the media control point.
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