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In fact, the Nazis had perverted the law and its rule but retained the structure of a lawful state, as chaos and anarchy were pretty much out of fashion in Germ
by choeger 8y ago
In fact, the Nazis had perverted the law and its rule but retained the structure of a lawful state, as chaos and anarchy were pretty much out of fashion in Germany after the 20s. Think of the Nazis as a gang of uneducated mobsters winning some decent hotel in a game of poker. They had to retain the reception, the service personal and the kitchen. But they behave disgustingly at every opportunity.
- hutzlibu 8y ago"Think of the Nazis as a gang of uneducated mobsters" Only that they were quite educated. Not the lower troops of SA. But the party members were very much into classical education, classical music etc. And they totally went by law and order. "Just" a different order. With racism as its core fundamentals and the neglect of humanism in general.
- durnygbur 8y ago> Nazis as a gang of uneducated mobsters Not at all e.g. most of the Wannsee Conference attendants had "Dr." title. Numerous responsible for massacres of civilians or inhumane medical experiments had the "Dr." title. The so called elite can turn into monstrosity as well. It's not "the primitives" which are the real threat most of the time. "The primitives" gain power only after the the elite is purged and/or expelled - see the first decades in Soviet Union after the Bolshevik revolution, or Stalinism in Poland.
- jplayer01 8y agoThere's nothing stopping a highly educated person from being an absolute monster, as we've seen repeatedly throughout history.
- coldtea 8y ago>Think of the Nazis as a gang of uneducated mobsters Actually lots of highly educated people were Nazis, including Nazi leaders and apologists. Including people considered by their (even Jewish, even post WWII) academic peers, as the "biggest thinkers" of the 20th century. Heck, Mengele had 2 Ph.Ds (anthopology and medicine).
- razakel 8y agoOskar Dirlewanger had a PhD in political science, and commanded a unit so brutal that an SS court was convened to investigate. Imagine how horrific someone's actions must be when even the SS think they might be going too far.
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- ekianjo 8y ago> Think of the Nazis as a gang of uneducated mobsters This is such a ridiculous claim to make. There is absolutely no correlation between Evil and Stupidity. And pretty much every fact of that time disagrees with the theory that Germany was led by idiots and uneducated people. On the contrary, you should be all the more afraid when smart people turn evil.
- choeger 8y agoThis was not a claim, although I very much doubt the intellectual capacity of Himmler, Göring, or Keitel. It was a metaphor. The Nazis had as much regard for the rule of law as a drunk member of a street gang may have for the correct placement of the several forks and knives and a dinner table.