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Es wird â auch wenn es um Geschichte geht â viel zu wenig über Elite nachgedacht. Wer gehört dazu? Wie denkt diese Elite? Welche Folgen hat das für die Politik? Man muss sich ja nur in den Medien umschauen: Wir stellen uns heute genauso blind wie vor 100 Jahren. So gesehen geht es in dieser Biographie gar nicht um Hitler. Sondern um die Eliten Ãsterreichs und Deutschlands. Und ihr apokalyptisches Denken.
Eliten und ihre Verlustangst
Und sage keiner, diese Leute würden heute nicht wieder genauso apokalyptisch denken. Das tun sie nämlich immer genau dann, wenn ihr Modell der Macht in strukturelle Krisen gerät. Ganz unbewusst. Es ist ja auch nicht so, dass die Vertreter dieser Elite wüssten, warum sie so denken. Man denkt ja bei Elite immer zuerst an eine wissende Elite. Aber so definieren sich Eliten nicht. Eliten definierten sich durch Besitz, Macht und Wirkmächtigkeit, durch Standesdenken und extremen Konservatismus. Denn natürlich
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They hated the Jews enough to exterminate them with obscene cruelty, while many among the German people remained silently complicit in the carnage. At the end, the Third Reich was kaput.Â
What both political parties, the Nazis and today’s Democrats, had/have in common is the capability and desire to traffic in fake memes shaped to their advantage. Â
On 21 October 1918, a young German soldier named Adolf Hitler was recovering from a gas attack when he learned of the defeat of Germany that prompted a revolution. He called it “the greatest villainy of the century”. Â
Many Germans believed their Army did not lose the war, but had been “stabbed-in-the-back” by liberal politicians on the home front. That sentiment was popularly rendered in cartoons, like the two above.
History Needs An Answer: Where Did Hitler s Madness Come From?
The denial of the Jews’ humanity was, to as diverse a group of observers as Hannah Arendt, Konrad Adenauer and George Mosse, due to the anti-Christian, secular elements of Nazi racism.
Here s What You Need to Remember: From the beginning to the end of the war that he and his government had launched, Hitler and his associates concluded that their paranoid fantasy of an international Jewish conspiracy was the key to contemporary history.
IN 1978, in
Toward the Final Solution: A History of European Racism, the historian George Mosse emphasized the parallels between European white racism of the modern era towards blacks and European racial hatred of the Jews. Both the European pseudoscientists and racial ideologues such as Houston Stewart Chamberlain, and then various Nazi racial ideologues, like the advocates of white supremacy in the United States, purported to uncover connections between external appearances and