Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "Getting OWNED over Hitler's Socialism" video.
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mike mcmike Obviously you need to read "The True Believer" by Hoffer. This little tome is considered by all to be in the top-three political tracts of the 20th Century.
As for the 'converts' -- I'm talking explicitly about Top Politicians in the national legislature, mayors, and others of similar rank. This offer was NOT extended to the hoi poloi which you are describing. They were NOT part of the 72-hour "join us or flee" edict.
There were true Conservatives in the legislature. Those guys were NOT invited into the Nazi party. They just went into internal exile -- that is -- prompt retirement. There were no jobs/ government positions for them.
Socialists were kindred spirits. They merely had to jump from Stalin to Hitler. No other attitude adjustment was required.
Again: read "True Believer" to understand the dynamics described here.
There could never be an adjustment between Hitler and Conservative Germans. They were all-the-way-out of government. Yes, they had to keep their heads down. You'd be shocked as to how many went clean through the war with their noses clean -- pensioned off by the Nazis.
It's for the above reason that I gag and howl at all the cinematic references (Hollywood) about the Nazis sending Socialists to Dachau. Actually, if you kept your mouth shut -- and stayed lucky -- the SD was not really interested in you.
That all changed in a stroke if the Nazis thought that you were an activist. Free-thinkers were sent to Dachau in a steady stream.
BTW, Dachau was not only torture college -- but it was the only camp that entirely focused on POLITICALS. Early on, many of those Politicals were Jews. It took a while for the full insanity of Nazism to kick in. High profile Jews were not sent to the larger death camp system. They were tortured to death right there at Dachau.
Dachau was Camp #1 in the entire evil scheme. EVERY camp monster learned his evil craft while at Dachau. That's where the sadists 'made their bones.' Truly evil cruelty was propagated outward from Dachau.
BTW, don't believe Wiki. Dachau was founded by the SA -- not the SS/ SD. That all changed after the Night of the Long Knives. Eicke took over. He merited hanging, without a doubt, but beat the noose by death at the front, 1943. He was the villain that crafted the rationale for death camp torture. Mere murder was simply not enough for Eicke.
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mike mcmike Since you are plainly a True Believer -- evidence, so much in abundance -- will have no impact on you.
I'm not going to g@@gle for McMike.
But for the general readership, IIRC, the magic 72-hour window occurred after Hindenburg died -- over a three-day-weekend. IIRC sometime around August 1934.
McMike -- virtually NO-ONE fled. Hitler got 97+% to sign on the line that was dotted. Even Socialists and Stalinists were not so crazy as to actually go to the USSR. They knew, far better than most, just what was up in the Soviet Union. They had many personal contacts -- and many were in the Trotsky fan club, to boot.
In sum, your entire world view is false. After the 'mass conversion' there were NO Nazi reprisals for the very dudes that they'd been street fighting with for more than a decade!
For both factions were minorities compared to the general German population.
As seen today, Germans want Conservative Values and Socialist Outcomes. Note that Merkel, herself, was an EAST GERMAN college professor. No wonder she's a go-along politician.
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