The.Nazis.A.Warning.From.History.1997.ep3.avi

Arguably one of the most important documentary series ever made, The Nazis: A Warning from History sets out to show that, far from being a uniquely German aberration, Nazism fed upon and was fostered by the prejudices and lemming-like inclinations of ordinary people. Although culminating with the atrocities of the Holocaust, these programmes are equally good on the motives of otherwise perfectly normal people, who needed only the tacit encouragement of the regime to perpetrate horrors against their enemies, their neighbours, or their own family. When confronted with evidence of their Nazi past, elderly former party members are often unable to find any other justification for their actions than simply that they could get away with it. Far from being a monolithic dictatorship which compelled the citizenry to act in rigidly prescribed ways, the Nazi state just allowed people to give their worst inclinations free reign. Hitler, it turns out, was a profoundly lazy man who rarely got out of bed before midday, and preferred to leave affairs of state to sort themselves out. He subscribed fervently to the doctrine of survival of the fittest as applied to all social and political matters, and actively encouraged in-fighting among his subordinates. The result was an organisational vacuum at the centre of state, which super-ambitious acolytes were only too eager to fill, often acting on nothing more than the Fuhrer's off-the-cuff remarks. One small example is revealing: after reading a letter from the father of a disabled child, Hitler agreed that it would be best for the boy to die. From this single statement arose a nationwide policy of euthanasia for all disabled children, carried out willingly and without compulsion by the doctors and "carers" themselves. It needed nothing more than the Fuhrer's nod. The message is clear and shocking: it happened in Germany, it could happen anywhere.

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[philbyification]

"Germanic" as per Tacitus? >.<"

[philbyification]

"Germanic" as per Tacitus? >.<"

[philbyification]

"Germanic" as per Tacitus? >.<"

[ButherLi55ett]

Why don't they mention Russian talks with France and Britain prior to German pact? You would think it was especially relevant as those states were completely opposed to the Russian Revolution etc and even went to war with it and continually opposed it. Could a deal ever had been done against the German state anyway? All the 'democracies' opposed Russia after 1917.

[ludocrat]

Stalin's role in the start of WWII should never be forgotten, regardless of the millions of Soviet dead a combination of his and his partner in crime, Hitler's, murderous hypocrisy directly caused.

[PapaLuvTLC]

"People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being." - Václav Havel

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Beware the coming storm...

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[rearly62]

Holocaust deniers are out to make people unsure about definitions, to unhinge them from their certainties, to make them lose sight of right and wrong. In this way they aim to achieve their ultimate purpose, which is the unabashed and unqualified rehabilitation of the Third Reich. If there was never any crime of mass murder then there are no mass murderers. Nazism and the Third Reich are whitewashed and made once again respectable and, what is most important for the neo-Nazis, attractive.

[rearly62]

Holocaust deniers often mimic the forms and practices of scholars in order to deceive the public about the nature of their views. They generally footnote their writings by citing the publications of other Holocaust deniers and hold pseudo-scholarly conventions.

Please do not be sucked in by their fantasies.

[rearly62]

Holocaust deniers ARE NOT historians, they have no evidential basis for their claims. They demand proof however cannot be bothered to research it themselves because “all the facts are Jewish lies." This allows them to concoct whatever lies they see fit and pass it off as the ULTIMATE DAMNING PROOF THE HOLOCAUST NEVER HAPPENED.

[rearly62]

Holocaust deniers continually try to blur the boundaries between reality and fiction. Some refer to a worldwide (or international) Jewish conspiracy, claiming we are all manipulated by a select few Jewish bankers and businessmen. The more intelligent racists (an oxymoron) see how this discredits them and so now find detailed ways to misrepresent the truth by picking holes in survivor testimonies or film and photo evidence and thereby deny the event at all.