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I think you could argue that the economic nightmare Germany faced after WW1 does make their resentment and desire for revenge understandable. I can see why many Germans would see war as the only way to improve things. It's shortsighted and foolish but, I can at least understand it. I don't think that would justify hostilities, not even close, but it does give context.

A lot of people didn't know the full scope of Hitler's ambition

They thought he would just get back the Polish parts and Northern Schleswig and leave it at that

Right. But then again the headline is why HITLER had to start WWII. Not the Germans as a whole. So I think I disagree on that basis with the video, though I haven't watched it. Hitler had no redeeming or justifying, humanizing goals in starting war.

If it hadn't been Hitler it would've been someone else

It may have been someone way less insane.

Who genuinely just felt that being blamed for WWI was fucked and wanted to force the Allies to right that wrong.

That would be awful in terms of the cost of human life and suffering but at least the reasoning would have been... Acceptable.

Not evil.

I believe that resource wars are a very human thing. To act like they're an evil thing is to ignore humanity. A war of ideology and racial supremacy? That is evil.

They can be natural and human and still be evil

Yes. But we can at least understand them.

If the Jews had been killed for economic reasons, like the Indians at Wounded Knee, I doubt they would feel much better about it

You know?

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/518798189982384169/565936642326790148/snekk.gif

That isn't what I meant. I don't think there is ever a circumstance in which ethnic genocide is an economic solution to a problem. Conquering territory is usually what comes to mind.

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/518798189982384169/585714935208738835/melon.gif

Anti-semitic rhetoric was common in pre-Nazi Germany, even before Hitler joined the nazi party.

If these people have a kind of intuitive solidarity with each other and can thus put up a consistent effort to prevent you from extracting resources from the territory then genocide is usually the solution that comes to mind for the conquerors

The Germans did it as well in Namibia before Hitler

In much of human history, the people at large didn't give two shits who the person fucking them was, because they were always being fucked. That it was someone else suddenly probably didn't bother them all that much.

Ethnic genocides were pretty common in human history

In the last 2000 years in Europe? Not so much

I mean yeah. That's true. But usually as a way to keep enemy kingdoms weak.

Population is manpower.

The Mongols, the Huns, and the Yamnaya all genocided their way across eurasia

https://twitter.com/Slate/status/1142520633613590530

I bet she's Asian

some bellend shot me point blank in the face with a pistol, I had to squeeze the embedded BB out of my chin like a spot

Oi, you got a loicense for that pistol??

freaked my wife out tho lol

I didn't realise a BB was in there until I got home and cleaned the blood off with a wet wipe

"Dust there's something white in there"
'wat'
*looks in mirror*
'o god'

it didn't really hurt before, but as soon as I popped the BB out it *really* hurt

haha

BRUTAL

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germolene'd it up but it won't stop oozing lol

what retard fucking shot you with a bb gun