If boards existed in the 1930's & 1940's what would the threads say about Hitler?

gozunda

If anyone's bored and wishes to role-play politics in Hitlers Germany - well wish no more

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Hitler

A must for Christmas and regulars of Politics forums

chrissb8

"What's with that trend where everyone puts their hand in the air nowadays? Think I'm getting too old to know what's "cool" these days, haha"

Wibbs

Zebra3 wrote: »

There would have been healthy discussion around Hitler’s policies including the inspiration the English (his term for the Tans) gave him for genocide and concentration camps (Mein Kampf vol I), but you’d never hear the mainstream media discuss anything like that.

True enough. Hitler didn't exist in a vacuum nor plucked his ideas from the air. He had plenty of inspiration from the past and the policies of other imperial powers, the English being most certainly one of them. Even the "Final solution" term itself was built on the "solutions" of those who'd gone previously. He had a huge admiration for the British Empire(pre and in the early stages of the war he mentioned this regularly to dinner companions) and wanted a German one, so looked to many of their tactics and policies in forming his own. In his "ideal world" he never would have gone to war with the British and would have been happy to leave them their empire while Germany was off building her own.

After routing the combined Allied forces in France and romping through Western Europe and just before the Battle of Britain Hitler publicly asked for "reason" with the British: "In this hour and before this body, I feel myself obliged to make one more appeal to reason to England. I do this not as a victor, but for the triumph of common sense. Churchill may parry my words with the claim that I feel doubt or fear, but in any event I will have the knowledge that I acted correctly according to my conscience. Despite my sincere efforts, it has not been possible to achieve the friendship with England which I believed would have been blessed by both"

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

He was though or more to the point he was completely militarily incompetent at fairly crucial times; he wasted any amounts of time and resources on military projects that were doomed to fail, routinely ignored advice from generals, his invasion of Russia was very nearly a success yet he single handedly scuppered it by driving for the Caucasus oil fields instead of baring down on Moscow as he was rightly advised to do.

Oh certainly, but few in number were the WW2 leaders who didn't screw up. His early successes, oft against the advice of the same generals made him overconfident to the point of daftness.

The victors always write the history in the end, even if they were allies. The Canadians never got credit for their efforts in the liberation of Rome and Italy (the Americans swung in and took all the credit in the end) and propaganda derided even that effort with D- Day.

Very true.

Wibbs

Wibbs wrote: »

Was there ever a follow up to find out what happened this person? Or, after the picture was published, was his collar felt by the SD/SS?

Wibbs

Deleted User wrote: »

Was there ever a follow up to find out what happened this person? Or, after the picture was published, was his collar felt by the SD/SS?

IIRC and I likely don't There was a name attached to the picture and one reason given was he was pissed off at the nazis because he had a Jewish girlfriend.

s1ippy

Wibbs wrote: »

They did have a couple of propaganda films showing "happy Jews" in "relocation centres".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIs1xBiMAQ8

Montage of Feck

Goebbels would have definitely approved of social media.

Montage of Feck

Montage of Feck wrote: »

Goebbels would have definitely approved of social media.

Although, it may have ended up called National Socialist Media

Hitler is based AF.

jmayo

Deleted User wrote: »

Was there ever a follow up to find out what happened this person? Or, after the picture was published, was his collar felt by the SD/SS?

It is believed it was August Landmesser 1910 - 1944 who was a worker at the Blohm+Voss shipyard in Hamburg in 1936 when photo was taken.

He was married to Jewish woman and that had already got him in trouble with the Nazis.
He was imprisoned and eventually he was drafted into penal military service, where he was killed in action in Croatia in 1944.

Keyzer

Gemma would have had a field day...

Cluedo Monopoly

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

As above, sadly he would have some support here, we all know the type.

Some support? He'd be welcomed with open arms!

Especially with the FG crew who see absolutely no wrong in wrongs.

(And I voted FG for nearly 20 years!)

jmayo

trashcan wrote: »

Imagine his tweets !!

The thing is he was quite smart not a raving lunatic like Trump.

Now yes in later years he would have been raving but early no.

Churchill's tweeter feed might have been more interesting, especially if he was tweeting in the middle of the night sozzeled or when the black dog was upon him.

whisky_galore wrote: »

^^Strange that good ol' FDR, turned away a boatload of desperate Jewish refugees on the eve of WW2. After a while of looking for anywhere to be allowed dock, the ship had no other option but to sail back to Europe (Netherlands) in the end and you can guess the rest. That rarely if ever gets mentioned in US documentaries.

The ones that Britain took in survived and only some of the ones that Netherlands, Belgium, etc took in.

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

He was though or more to the point he was completely militarily incompetent at fairly crucial times; he wasted any amounts of time and resources on military projects that were doomed to fail, routinely ignored advice from generals, his invasion of Russia was very nearly a success yet he single handedly scuppered it by driving for the Caucasus oil fields instead of baring down on Moscow as he was rightly advised to do.

Don't know if you could ever say he was going to beat USSR.
The Germans, including the General Staff totally underestimated the Soviets.
They went on WWI experience, underestimated the Soviets industrial strength and were cock a hoop after success against France, low countries and indeed into the Balkans.

BTW Churchill was also a bit of a looney.
The British military chiefs had to keep him away from some things as he was often going off on wild ones.
But the British generals could contain Churchill, the Germans faced at least being fired like Guderian or at worse a firing squad or a noose if they peed off Hitler too much.
Franz Halder, his chief of staff until 1942, finished the war in a concentration camp.

Actually Guderian was one of the few that got into shouting matches with Hitler on numerous occasions and he got away with it.

Church on Tuesday

jmayo wrote: »

The thing is he was quite smart not a raving lunatic like Trump.

Now yes in later years he would have been raving but early no.

Churchill's tweeter feed might have been more interesting, especially if he was tweeting in the middle of the night sozzeled or when the black dog was upon him.





The ones that Britain took in survived and only some of the ones that Netherlands, Belgium, etc took in.




Don't know if you could ever say he was going to beat USSR.
The Germans, including the General Staff totally underestimated the Soviets.
They went on WWI experience, underestimated the Soviets industrial strength and were cock a hoop after success against France, low countries and indeed into the Balkans.

BTW Churchill was also a bit of a looney.
The British military chiefs had to keep him away from some things as he was often going off on wild ones.
But the British generals could contain Churchill, the Germans faced at least being fired like Guderian or at worse a firing squad or a noose if they peed off Hitler too much.
Franz Halder, his chief of staff until 1942, finished the war in a concentration camp.

Actually Guderian was one of the few that got into shouting matches with Hitler on numerous occasions and he got away with it.

Until he split his forces to go for the oil fields in the Caucases, it was a distinct possibility.

It was always going to be a mammoth operation invading Russia and then more crucially maintaining that territory and yes, Hitler completely underestimated the Russian resistance once they got their act together and Stalin pulled himself together, esp with the superior Russian tanks, until then, German experience was winning out.

Elmer Blooker

Boards.ie c 1936:
Hitler is a great guy for sorting out those filthy Reds in Spain.
Any post that says Hitler is a thug and will lead Europe to death and destruction would be moved to the conspiracy theory forum by mods.
If a poster claimed that Hitler's aim was to exterminate the Jews they would be told "do not post in this thread again" :P

Hqrry113

Elmer Blooker wrote: »

Boards.ie c 1936:
Hitler is a great guy for sorting out those filthy Reds in Spain.
Any post that says Hitler is a thug and will lead Europe to death and destruction would be moved to the conspiracy theory forum by mods.
If a poster claimed that Hitler's aim was to exterminate the Jews they would be told "do not post in this thread again" :P

Lol

TuringBot47

You know "Seig Heil" has the same number of letters as "Sinn Fein".
Coincidence ?

Fann Linn

TuringBot47 wrote: »

You know "Seig Heil" has the same number of letters as "Sinn Fein".
Coincidence ?

More closer to Fine Gael before you even count the letters.
Coincidence?