The good thing about me is when I moved from the isolated sticks to the city I brought my DTV with me. They now offer Newsmax which is a low budget right wing news station (hey, we can never have too many both right or left, they also offer for free Link TV where you can hear the anti American and especially anti jew view of the world.) which every night broadcasts very interesting old objective documentaries on WWII and the Viet Nam war. The 1935 Germany and 2016 USA are very similar when you compare Hitler and Trump. What the hell do we have to do to make life good again and who is causing all our problems? In his days, Germans are doing poorly but jews seem to prosper. I want to see some muslims doing really poorly. If we are suffering and they are not it must be their fault.
No a good analogy. They had passed the Nuremberg laws by then and Democracy had pretty much been extinguished. The problems we have today and the fears voters have for the future are absolutely insignificant to those in Germany that brought Hitler to power.
Agreed, assuming the "we" here is the Western Countries today. Keynes at Versailles said the allies were making a grave mistake. We know now that he was right! A lesson was learned, and the mistakes made at Versailles were not repeated after WW II.
Lots of lessons from World War I, one being that mutual defense pacts don't always make you more secure. Imperial Germany was destroyed because the Kaiser didn't have the good judgment to tell Austria-Hungary to work with the international community instead of going it alone in punishing the Serbs for the act of one terrorist. You could trace 100 million plus deaths over 30 years back to that one bad decision by a monarch who no doubt disproportionately valued the lives and prerogatives of fellow blue bloods over millions of his own soldiers and civilians. It's a good lesson to consider with NATO flexing its muscles in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.