Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "War Stories" channel.

  1. It's not like the gangsters weren't up-front about their aims, even beyond Mein Kampf: “We are an anti-parliamentarian party that for good reasons rejects the Weimar constitution and its republican institutions...So why do we want to be in the Reichstag? We enter the Reichstag to arm ourselves with the weapons of democracy. If democracy is foolish enough to give us free railway passes and salaries, that is its problem. It does not concern us. Any way of bringing about the revolution is fine by us...We will march into the marble halls of parliament, bringing with us the revolutionary will of the broad masses from which we came, called by fate and forming fate. We do not want to join this pile of manure. We are coming to shovel it out...We are coming neither as friends or neutrals. We come as enemies! As the wolf attacks the sheep, so come we. You are not among your friends any longer! You will not enjoy having us among you!" ― Joseph Goebbels: 1928 When a true believer tells you something, you dismiss what he is saying at your own peril. Just like that German soldier fighting on the Eastern Front wrote in a letter to his family: "Everyone knows what we bring." Seig heil indeed. That's why I don't buy the argument: "We didn't know." Damn right they knew. As Ike said, how could they not?
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