Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "Himmler's INSANE Reason for Recruiting non-Germans in the Waffen-SS" video.

  1. You can rationalize anything when your back is against the wall. The American Confederates were grabbing slaves off the plantations and establishing black units in 1865. One of the Southern senators resigned over the issue, saying it negated their entire argument for why the war had to be fought. At least he was an honest bigot. Himmler did have more than a few screws loose. He was the most ardent ideologue among the ranking Nazi's and a lot of his fervor seems to be based in his own insecurities since he was one of the few who didn't fight in the First World War. He was also young when he joined the party so there was probably a lot of twisted idealism in his dark soul. True believers like Himmler will go to great lengths to defend the cult because so much of their identity is wrapped up in it. If it's a lie, and their worldview turns out to be hogwash their whole world comes crashing down. That Southern senator understood that and that's why he got off the train when the racialist belief system that undergirded the Confederacy turned out to be a bunch of horsesh*t. For the Confederacy, It was always a question of free labor, always an economic matter. The planters didn't want to pay their field hands and they thought they would lose their free labor if they remained in the Union. The Nazi's wanted were greedy SOB's who wanted to grab the Jews property and create a slave class to work the plantations they wanted to establish in the East. Like Joe Pesci said in the movie Casino: "It's always about the dollars."
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