The.Nazis.A.Warning.From.History.1997.ep1.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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[KechongolJohnrikha]

Nazis are good guys u must understand this

[MegaTinytommy]

How did people not see what was about to happen... all they had to do was read 'Mein Kampf (my struggle). in this book Hitler clearly states that he is a racist.

[gnewsome]

It never ceases to amaze me how something this awful could ever happen.

[LolLordy]

@Snellicopter soisoisoisoi

[ItsJustUzThree]

@Snellicopter Yuppp... XD

[atltom58]

@q1w2e3r467 what if your not a puppet and you refuse to do Samaels wishes..

[q1w2e3r467]

Soldiers: satan's play toys, he loves to pull off their legs and cut off their heads. He disregard's God's gift of 'freewill' to all humans and instead puts us into little groups and teaches us to hate 'other' It is easy to hate 'other' not so easy to hate 'brother.' We are one race; the human race, we are all brothers and sisters with one common enemy who orchestrates evil from the spirit world through any human puppet willing to do his work.

[ginjaninja1988]

@AliceNchainz011 Its a point of following the Constitution. Congress doesn't always get it right; but it is better than the administration declaring wars by themselves.

[AliceNchainz011]

@ginjaninja1988 Like what, a formal declaration of war or simply congressional approval? Or does it really matter which and is it just quibbling over semantics? Congress voted in favor of the Iraq war and the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passed with an overwhelming majority. Congress votes for more welfare spending too...is that decision "closer to the people"?

[1heinrichvollmer]

typical anlo-saxon propaganda about the third reich