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"The plan was not to treat them as equals " I think the honest plan was to accept UK as sea power and germany as the mainland power. Later .. open how things d
by lukan 5mo ago
"The plan was not to treat them as equals "
I think the honest plan was to accept UK as sea power and germany as the mainland power. Later .. open how things developed.
See also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_von_Ribbentrop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_von_Ribbentrop
"I mean sure, it was about race, not about passport. "
But we agree it seems. I was just arguing against the common missconception of trying to understand the Nazis as Ultra-nationalists, while they were mainly thinking in racial terms. Not germany should have ruled the world, but the Aryans. (With germany at it's heart, but that was more a side point)
- senderista 5mo agoA parallel mistake is the widespread belief taught in schools that the essence of the Nazi ideology was anti-Semitism, rather than anti-Communism.