Hitler did not invade Austria

Comment by freitasm, on 18-JAN-2010 18:53

What parallels? Hitler did not invade Austria, but used it as part of the politics game back then.

The blog post you mention quotes:

"Hitler also said that the real way to catch the criminals (and we still had a few) was by the serial numbers of the guns, so we had to register our guns. Most of the people were law abiding and dutifully marched to the police station and registered their guns. Not long afterward, they said that it was best for everyone to turn in their guns. They already knew who had the guns, so you had to turn them in, or they would come and get them.

We knew then that we had a full dictatorship. No more freedom of speech. If you said anything against the government, you were taken away. We knew many people who were taken away, not only Jews, but priests and ministers. It didn't come overnight, it took five years from 1938 until 1943 to graduate into dictatorship. If we (would have) had a dictatorship overnight, we would have fought to our last breath, but we had creeping gradualism.

Now we had nothing except broom-handles. The whole thing was almost unbelievable; that you can feed all this to the masses, little by little and no one would object. It's true, those of us who sailed past the Statue of Liberty, came to a country of unbelievable freedom and opportunity. America is the greatest country in the world. Don't let freedom slip away. After America, there is no place to go."

The way I read that post it is coming from a left-wing person that sees a government conspiracy everywhere and is trying to relate the actions of an extreme right-wing dictator to modern governments - which is not the case.

Just a good example of Godwin's Law. He loses.

Comment by wellygary, on 19-JAN-2010 10:29

Err. The vote came after the NAZI troops arrived,

There is some major rose tinted spin in the quoted article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anschluss

Comment by Mark Ascroft, on 19-JAN-2010 20:25

Must have been the only country he didn't invade - guess there had to be one. Not quite sure the point the author is making - lost on me.....

Comment by ronindanbo, on 20-JAN-2010 12:53

Mark

Sorry to correct but there were many countries he didnt have to invade such as Finland and Romania such was the anti bolshevik fears of the time as well as the desperation of a world in depression. The dangerous thing of this is that a desperate population will cling to any mad man with a good charisma, it happens even now.

The saving grace of Hitler is that he was a meglomaniacle incompetant without whos help the good guys would never have one the war.

Comment by Bob Simmons, on 13-FEB-2010 07:40

Her point is that we all must be on guard against "gradualism". Little by little subtle changes are being made by our liberal politicians. Our debt has quadripled in the last year, the government is trying to take over the banks, traditional American values are being erroded, the government now owns our major auto makers and have you registered you gun yet? Let's face it the Democrats are pushing us into socialism just as it is in western europe. Just look at Obamacare. There is no place on this planet where socialism has worked but the Democrats haven't figured it out yet. Their coolaid drinking followers just enable it all. How foolish you liberals are.