Comments by "" (@obsidianjane4413) on "The REAL Reason Germany Kept Fighting" video.

  1. And there was always that counterbalance of the threat of being killed by your own gestapo, sandwiching you with the tender mercies of surrender to the Red Army gives very little opportunity but to stand and fight.
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  2.  @nigelwatson2750  Nothing will invalidate your point more than the crinkle of your tin foil hat.
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  3. Sadly he has to do it otherwise some dimwit troll will misrepresent it as his actual statements and not a quote.
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  4.  @nigelwatson2750  Delusion will do that for you. Ignorance is bliss as they say.
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  5. Nein. They really were doing it to avoid falling into the hands of the Red Army. They knew exactly what kind of treatment they deserved.
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  6. You apparently need to watch it again.
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  7. I disagree with the premise you've articulated several times that the Nazis didn't bring up unconditional surrender because it would "give them an out". Unconditional surrender is just that, unconditional. You are placing yourself at the mercy of your enemies. Which would facilitate that "national and cultural annihilation" boogieman of Hitler's (because it is what he would do to them). This is why it wasn't mentioned by Goebbels and Co. It would have been an admission that things were so bad that this "unthinkable" was on the table. My theory of why the German military bought into Hitler's gibberish and fought to the last was that the German generals had been junior officers during the Great War and in the chaos of the inter-war years. Hitler himself had been an enlisted man and this clearly impacted his outlook and worldview. This trauma, that we call PTSD today, mentally damaged these men leaving them vulnerable to sociopathologies. They were able to do what we would consider irrational, and frankly, evil, and persevered at it because of this absence of empathy for not just others but also their personal surrender to the "cult" not so much of Hitler or National Socialism, but to the Prussian military order. They were willing to not only die but see that many, many others die needlessly, rather than admit that they were wrong or failures.
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  8. Just keep in mind that the truth is never simple.
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