I just have difficulty taking this particular viewpoint seriously.
There are books about the two dozen assassination attempts against Hitler, some by ordinary people and some by the Nazis themselves. There are thousands of books about various pockets of resistance. Innumerable films.
To say ‘they didn’t try hard enough’ is, to me, just nonsense.
Yeah there was plenty of resistance from various quarters it just got smashed quickly and wasn’t coordinated enough. Born again Christians were vehemently opposed to the regime for example and suffered harshly for it. Obviously all the lefties etc. too.
On the flip side the Nazis did win over a significant percentage of the population through the late 1930s because of how well the economy was doing, it just never went to a plebiscite so we’ll never know the exact numbers.
They were hard against leftists, unionists, socialists, communists, and the like from the start, and that’s why the industrialists liked them in the first place, and why the west allowed them to fester, because the rich were afraid of the communists, and more afraid of a little reform in general, than putting a single person in absolute power indefinitely.
It really does boggle the mind after you realize this is a dynamic that happens over and over, just as Rome had the same thing a generation before Caesar around the 1st century BC when Sulla came to power on the tail end of Marius’ many consolships. They were afraid of the populares, and reform, and gave dictator powers to sulla that declared himself dictator for life and went on a proscription rampage after violently taking the city, putting up lists of men to kill every day, that soon included his allies, he took the assets of the proscribed and taking his rich allies assets was the end in itself after too long.
But time and again, fear of moderate reform on the “left” leads to supporting an all powerful ruler that carries far more danger to the rich and poor alike.
They literally imprisoned Hitler.
But okay.
What happened next?
Putting him in prison didnt stop him. It clearly was not enough.
I just have difficulty taking this particular viewpoint seriously.
There are books about the two dozen assassination attempts against Hitler, some by ordinary people and some by the Nazis themselves. There are thousands of books about various pockets of resistance. Innumerable films.
To say ‘they didn’t try hard enough’ is, to me, just nonsense.
Yeah there was plenty of resistance from various quarters it just got smashed quickly and wasn’t coordinated enough. Born again Christians were vehemently opposed to the regime for example and suffered harshly for it. Obviously all the lefties etc. too.
On the flip side the Nazis did win over a significant percentage of the population through the late 1930s because of how well the economy was doing, it just never went to a plebiscite so we’ll never know the exact numbers.
They were hard against leftists, unionists, socialists, communists, and the like from the start, and that’s why the industrialists liked them in the first place, and why the west allowed them to fester, because the rich were afraid of the communists, and more afraid of a little reform in general, than putting a single person in absolute power indefinitely.
It really does boggle the mind after you realize this is a dynamic that happens over and over, just as Rome had the same thing a generation before Caesar around the 1st century BC when Sulla came to power on the tail end of Marius’ many consolships. They were afraid of the populares, and reform, and gave dictator powers to sulla that declared himself dictator for life and went on a proscription rampage after violently taking the city, putting up lists of men to kill every day, that soon included his allies, he took the assets of the proscribed and taking his rich allies assets was the end in itself after too long.
But time and again, fear of moderate reform on the “left” leads to supporting an all powerful ruler that carries far more danger to the rich and poor alike.
I haven’t heard of 2 dozen assassination attempts, and I suspect that is wildly revised upwards by people seeking to make them look better.
There was the one attempt at the meeting, the bomb under the table, that Rommel was involved in. That’s the only one I can recall.
I’m talking about citizens, not the government.