OMG!! Apacherat nailed it. The Jews in New York are planning to commit mass suicide. LOL.
I've heard that anti semitism had a larger presence in Poland than in Germany during that era.
There were some ugly incidents at the end of the WW I, when Jews were often perceived as likely to support the friendly little neighbor ruled by Leon Trotsky and Co.
The Polish government under Piłsudski, however, took measures to protect minorities, and there was no institutionalized discrimination. It wasn't quite the "paradisus Iudaeorum" of the old Renaissance Poland, but still nowhere close to what was happening in Germany.
(Independent entities, like Catholic trade unions, did have exclusionist rules, effectively blocking Jews, Orthodox Christians and Protestants from working in certain areas; some universities had a limit on the percentage of Jews attending - just like Harvard).
In any case, the negative attitude was not so much anti-Semitism as anti-Judaism - almost entirely along the religious lines. Nobody was thinking in terms of racial purity.
Hey Cyrlek :2wave:
You probably have more knowledge and personal experiences with Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union and had personal contact with those who lived in pre WWll Europe than most on the PD.You sure did on the former Politico. You been there and done that.
I still remember in 1958 as a eight year old of riding my Schwinn bike a mile across the neighborhood to a corner market to stare at the old Jew who had numbers tattooed on his forearm.
Kindle Führer: “Mein Kampf” Tops Amazon Charts
>"E-book versions of Hitler's opus are rising in the rankings on Amazon and iTunes. What gives?"<
That's exactly what I was going to say, what gives ?
I haven't read "Mein Kampf" in over forty years. May have to read it again.
So what say you ? What's your take on this ?
>" You won’t see Adolf Hitler peering back at you from the featured display tables at Barnes & Noble any time soon. But browse the most popular e-book stores these days and Der Führer’s mug is seemingly unavoidable. For a year now, his magnum manifesto has loomed large over current best-sellers on iTunes, where at the time of this writing two different digital versions of Mein Kampf rank 12th and 15th on the Politics & Current Events chart alongside books by modern conservative powerhouses like Sarah Palin, Charles Krauthammer and Glenn Beck.
In fact, all seven of Beck’s books trail Herr Hitler’s nearly century-old tell-all, which consistently holds its own against new e-blockbusters like Game Change by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, This Town by Mark Leibovich, and Nate Silver’s The Signal and the Noise
Mein Kampf hasn’t made The New York Times nonfiction chart since its U.S. release in 1939, the same year Germany invaded Poland, and its print sales have fallen steadily ever since. But with a flood of new e-book editions, Hitler’s notorious memoir just clocked a banner digital year. One 2012 English-language version is currently the number one Propaganda & Political Psychology book on Amazon. Another digital selection is a player in the Globalization category..."<
Continue -> A "Mein Kampf" Resurgence, Thanks to Amazon's Kindle
That's what I'm thinking, people are reading it out of curiosity.
With the failure of Obama, maybe the left are thinking abandoning internationalist socialism and thinking of going the way of nationalist socialism ?
When you look at the progressives (true progressives) during America's progressive era, it was close to nationalist socialism.
Why would you commit suicide if you are going to be killed? Jews are smarter than that. And tricky. This could be a smokescreen for ZOG to take over while we are distracted by...a Hitler clone, visitors from Tau Ceti, a resurgence of the hula-hoop craze?
Be afraid.
:roll:
(naw, just kidding)
And you probably think the United States is a democracy ?
It's a REPUBLIC.
BTW: It's nationalist not national. One could say nationalist are nativist. You know, America first. America # 1.
Have you ever read the Progressives Dillingham Commission report to Congress ?
Indeed, "America #1" certainly sounds like a liberal position. Conservatives, on the other hand, never express such a thing.
And you missed the point. Nazis were socialist about in the way that North Korea is a Peoples' Democratic Republic.
I imagine people probably download it due to the fact it's public domain ed and likely cheap or free at this point. And being it's one of those books most people "plan" on reading one day, they likely download it for their library
Yep: 99 cents on amazon
Mein Kampf: Adolf Hitler, Ralph Manheim: 9780395925034: Amazon.com: Books
If Hitler were have never invaded Poland and France and the rest of Europe had gone with the Madagascar Plan dealing with Europe's Jewish problem, Hitler may have been the most famous man in the world today.
Look at what he accomplished in Germany is a short time. When Hitler came into power, Germany was a basket case. Hitler brought recovery in Germany while America and the rest of the world were still in a depression. I think FDR tried some of the things Hitler did that were successful. Like FDR's CCC. But the CCC wasn't really that successful. Most Americans already knew how to use a shovel. While Hitler built the autobahn, FDR built hiking trails and bridges to no where.
Some yeas ago I was in a research library and read the only interview of Hitler by an English speaking journalist. It was an eye opener. I think the interview took place in or around 1936. I searched and searched all over the internet and can't find the interview. But Hitler mentioned Stalin and compared his form of socialism to Stalins communist form of socialism.
With in months an American journalist conducted an interview with Stalin. Stalin also brought up Hitler and acknowledges the great accomplishments Hitler made in Germany then went on to say that the Soviets form of socialism was a better form of socialism than nationalist socialism.
It's been over forty years since I read "Mien Kampf", but I still remember Hitler's views on America. We were to far gone, a mongolized nation. But he touched on imperialism and preferred America's form of imperialism over the UK's or France's form on imperialism.
It's a book worth reading for historical context to understanding where Hitler was coming from and where he was heading. It was all there for everyone to read back before WW ll.
It's probably the Godwinization of politics.
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This explains it. Hitler was taken by the Russians and given to their hula hoop wearing alien overlords to clone. But the cloning didn't go well, and he ended up with dark skin. So they came up with a plan for him to be "born" in Kenya where nobody would notice. He was smuggled to Hawaii and given a fake birth certificate under the name "Barack Hussein Obama II."
You didn't hear this from me, though....
Maybe it's required reading by all those 8th grade teachers who assign "defend naziism" papers.
I can see i'm bout to get admonished again for the 'likes' i got on last post.
I think Mein Kampf is in the must read category. It demonstrates how absolutely negligent of all responsibility the German population was. In spite of the document they voted that man into power. It is that fact that makes it obvious that every individual should be held personally and collectively responsible for the actions committed in his name.
I honestly can't tell whether you dislike Hitler or not. If you happen to be a fan of his, wouldn't you feel that equating the Democratic party with Naziism would be a compliment?
Leave it to you to tie this to Obama...
Should all of those who voted Obama into the White House be held personally and collectively responsible for the actions and destruction that Obama has inflicted upon the country and the Middle East ?
Germany has Bismark, Hitler and sauerkraut.
America has Lincoln, Reagan and John Wayne also cheese burgers.
The Democrats have Obama and free stuff.
Mein Kampf has moved from position 1242 to position 808 since yesterday. Either this thread is much more powerful than I would have thought or we are about to have a resurgence of Nazism.
Germany has Bismark, Hitler and sauerkraut.
America has Lincoln, Reagan and John Wayne also cheese burgers.
The Democrats have Obama and free stuff.
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