Yep. Lebensraum is very much a manifest destiny type project where the nazis wanted to colonize the east and get rid of the natives. They even kidnapped children for Germanization in similar model that US took native children for americanization.Wanting to “replace” Nazism with a military junta which would continue the genocidal war in the East(and the Heer was every bit as enthusiastic about carrying out such atrocities as the SS) is not a “good trait”.
Especially since he literally wanted to keep Poland as a plantation for his fellow noblemen
It is in fact oppression because there is no legal basis for such ordersYou being Anti Democratic is no surprise, you the kind of person who thinks having to wear a mask at the Piggy Wiggly is oppression and wants the state to punish everyone you don't like.
Well if you think that’s where regimes like the Nazis come from then maybe you should tell your party to stop piling up oppressive mandates before the reaction begins to spiral upward.That's the mindset of the people who supported the Nazis, that Germany was oppressed by cultural Marxism and international bankers and needed to fight back.
Apart from Bismarck and Hitler, which names of German politicians do you know?
I’d imagine more people have heard of Otto van Bismarck than some town in North Dakota.Stupid question. Most people have never heard of a German person named Bismarck. That name is nothing more than a city in North Dakota for Americans. The way you wrote that assumes everyone knows who replaced Angela Merkel (or even that she recently quit).
Later the new town was called Edwinton, after Edwin Ferry Johnson, engineer-in-chief for the Northern Pacific Railway. Its construction of railroads in the territory attracted workers and settlers.
In 1873, the Northern Pacific Railway renamed the city to Bismarck, in honor of German chancellor Otto von Bismarck. Railroad officials hoped to attract German immigrant settlers to the area and German investment in the railroad.[10] It is the only U.S. state capital named for a foreign statesman.
It's kind of hard to call him German born, seeing how no such entity as Germany existed at time of his birth. At best (and by such principle) one could call him a Trieran (aka someone born in Trier).Rumpel:
I probably know the names of hundreds of important Germanic and German people from Caesar's Germanic enemy Ariovistus of the Suebi, through Odouacer, past the mad King Ludwig of Bavaria and later the two Wilhelms right up to many famous modern-day Germans like Ursula Von der Leyen. But I did not know who one person on your list was until I looked her up, Annalena Baerbock - the Foreign Minister. So thank you for teaching me that!
Now where on your list is Klemens Von Metternich, the most famous German born politician, even if he did work for the Austrians?
Cheers and be well.
Evilroddy.
That nincompoop doesn't deserve any.No recognition for Kaiser Wilhelm II, the idiot king of Germany during WWI?
By the way, Sir Rumpel, have you ever seen this movie, and if so, what did you think of it?
Metternich's education was handled by his mother, heavily influenced by their proximity to France; Metternich spoke French better than German.
Three cheers for Boris Palmer!I used to like Boris Palmer, because he was a highly successful mayor of Tübingen within the Green Party, until he made some critical comments about race and they suspended him and then he suspended his membership himself. But it looks like Tübingen is still doing well under his watch.
Yep. Lebensraum is very much a manifest destiny type project where the nazis wanted to colonize the east and get rid of the natives. They even kidnapped children for Germanization in similar model that US took native children for americanization.
You need to take a look at Ludwig Erhard, probably one of the most interesting Kanzler of West Germany.I looked up the list of Chancellors to find which one was the one I first became aware of after graduating from toddler. It was Helmud Schmidt
On looking at the list of W German Chancellors since the beginning, to my surprise there are some I am totally ignorant of. I always aware of Konrad Adenauer as Chancellor, even though it was before I paid attention to such things
I never heard of:
Ludwig Erhard
Kurt Georg Kiesinger
I am still trying to wrap my head around the set up in East Germany. It appears they did not call the chief executive officer Chancellor. There appears to have been a Secretary of the Communist Party and a Head of State. Not sure how that worked. Eitherways the only Walter Ulbricht and Erick Honneker
It is in fact oppression because there is no legal basis for such orders
Well if you think that’s where regimes like the Nazis come from then maybe you should tell your party to stop piling up oppressive mandates before the reaction begins to spiral upward.
No recognition for Kaiser Wilhelm II, the idiot king of Germany during WWI?
That idiotic Wilhelm managed to turn France and Britain and Russia and the USA and Italy and Japan into enemies of Germany. That was a bit much.It can be argued he singularly gifted two world wars to Germany, thanks to his failure to heed Bismarck's advice and deviating dangerously away from the more careful foreign policy Bismarck had built. @Rumpel
You need to take a look at Ludwig Erhard, probably one of the most interesting Kanzler of West Germany.
Soziale Marktwirtschaft.
sink herIirc, when that famous pic of Merkel was taken, she was on the Bismarck.
Annalena Charlotte Alma Baerbock (pronounced [anaːˌleːnaː ˈbɛːɐ̯ˌbɔk] (listen); born 15 December 1980) is a German politician from Alliance 90/The Greens serving as the Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2021.
From 2018 to January 2022, Baerbock served as co-leader of Alliance 90/The Greens, alongside Robert Habeck. She was the party's candidate for chancellor in the 2021 federal election, making her the first such candidate for the Greens and, after Angela Merkel, only the second woman to be selected by a party as its candidate for chancellor by a major German political party. After the election, the Greens formed a traffic light coalition led by Olaf Scholz, and Baerbock was sworn in as Germany's first female foreign minister on 8 December 2021.
Born in Hanover, West Germany in 1980, Baerbock attended the University of Hamburg and the London School of Economics and Political Science. She was first elected to the Bundestag in 2013. From 2012 to 2015, she was a member of the party council of Alliance 90/The Greens and from 2009 to 2013, the leader of her party's group in the federal state (or "Land") of Brandenburg.