> Hitler knew how to write speeches and the German people were looking for strong leadership after feeling $@#! on for 20 years.
@Maw To be fair, their 'feeling $%^# on' was an awful lot more like being actually $%^# on.

For sure.

Life has always been shitty for the common folk.

The treaty was absolute garbage.

They had no choice. An offer they literally couldn't refuse.

On that video of mine I left a comment that has the following starting sentence:

"The main reason the Germans led the world for having the best universities in the 1800s was because they challenged every thing we thought was right, and then they even challenged that."

> Life has always been shitty for the common folk.
@eclair088 Some more than others. This one was super bad.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2020/12/2480471/

Well yeah. I come from a German family. I always looked back at the Weimar Republic to figure out how to stop it.

I don't think you understand how bad it was in Germany, their government was bankrupted by the treaty of versailles.

They also had 0 diplomatic power, forced minimization of military, forced out of certain regions, etc.

> Well yeah. I come from a German family. I always looked back at the Weimar Republic to figure out how to stop it.
@eclair088 The Weimar republic was feckless. It could have been anyone with any policies.

Like Amerika in 2020.............

Lol no. Just no.

Hell, those BLM and Antifa peaceful riotors...

Um. You just said it could have been anyone with any policies?

Why can't I compare 2020 to Weimar?

In Germany

I mean, I already compared it while it was happening. So it's not much to me anymore.

You can compare...but we aren't in anything like similar circumstances.

Sure we are. If we live in a blue state.

Life sucked for almost everyone in Germany for 20 years.

LA looks like hell

Not just the poor.

The main reason why we do not show off our amazing military technology is that as soon as someone knows it CAN be done, the reverse-engineering takes less time.

If LA was red it will be the same nothing will be better _

Weimar Germany didn't show off their military because there literally wasn't one. I'm not sure what you're getting at.

It was mandated they didn't have one.

Including civilian arms.

It took 20 years of pain. Yet for us it took 1 year. To get to the same place

We are not in the same place.

This is not The same place.

It was a tangent.

Yes. It. Is.

So I will digress.

Wow

I am a veteran.

Ok

Germany effectively became a serf to Europe.

We are nowhere near that.

Hobbled