Comments by "Derek Taylor" (@derektaylor2941) on "Into the Shadows" channel.

  1. I was told in Waterstone book shop (UK) that "...we should never be like the nazis and should burn this book..." I replied to this silly girl- a part time worker who was, unbelievably, studying modern history at university- that the nazis would have been proud of her plan to burn books she didn't like. Oh the irony.
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  3. What is laughable (you'll excuse the phrase, for it is not 'funny') is that half the reich would not have survived their own Aryan checklist were it applied properly. Two obvious examples being himmler and goering. For anyone who wants to get inside the mind of the top ranking nazis, you need to see 'der untergang' - DOWNFALL. The producers of that masterpiece neither glorify nor berate the nazis, but show it as matter of fact. You see them become weak and feeble creatures protected only by fear as they meet their ends. But the film also serves as a warning as you can be easily drawn into this and almost feel sorry for the broken hitler as he prepares to blow his brains out- then you realise, he's hitler so feck him. I think the producers did that deliberately just to show how easily the nazis managed to bend people to their will. This film is probably the closest you will ever get to understanding the mind of the nazi party and it is horrifying.
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  4. Sadly I think you really lack understanding about 1930s. Today every piece of information is available everywhere on social media. Back 90 years ago few outside of Germany would have heard of his book. Christ almighty, it was only a few years before the outbreak of WW2 that Germany was hosting the Olympics and meanwhile AKTION T4 was murdering the sick and elderly, but oh so cleverly so that no one knew... There is a very good article on wikipedia explaining how they got away with it. I don't know how old you are, but if you are under 35 then you'll never have known a time without the internet- if you did you'd understand why your comment is well meaning but fundamentally flawed.
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  5. I would like to ask this channel presenter and indeed, anyone, the following question: "If hitler had not committed mass murder- from aktion t4, which was the mass murder of sick and elderly, to operation reinhardt, which was the genocide of Jews and others, and one took solely his economic policy, would hitler have succeeded? Would he be hated as he is today? Finally- the big one- COULD he have achieved his economic regeneration and modernisation without the evil cruelty or are they inter-dependent? I know some will look at the above in a subjective and emotional way and not be able to process the pure logical part of the question and if that's you then I suspect you've missed the whole point of this video, let alone my question.
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  6.  @changer_of_ways_999  yes I had the same thing in Waterstones, UK, some years back. This fat thing working there who wanted to tell me all her opinions, told me we should never be like the nazis and should burn the book. When I explained to her that one of the nazi traits was burning books they didn't like I said "yes, you SHOULD look embaressed."
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  7. ​ @rhondasisco-cleveland2665  Machiavelli was not evil and nor was his greatest work, The Prince. In this book- which you have to remember has been through at least one translation, often two, that he was advising powerful people how to exert control, to protect themselves. He also steered them towards using violence is sparingly as possible. This might be right or it might be wrong and you'll have to compare it to the general sociopolitics of the time. But that is very far removed from a book that is effectively an argument for mass genocide.
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