Nadai
Active Member
Today on the History Channel I was watching Third Reich: The Rise on the History channel about Hitler's rise to power and how he overtook Germany. It is a very interesting and informative documentary, a lot of information I didn't know or had forgotten.
What is amazing to me is how Adolf Hitler was described as being spastic with epileptic tendencies always frothing at the mouth during his speeches and having shifty eyes. It was said that he would be the last person to approach on the streets if someone needed a light. Even so he had the ability to rise to Fuhrer and make people believe that all that he did was to better Germany: public executions, the torture of those who resist Hitler with steel whips and drills, the arrest of all Communists, the total breech of privacy for the public, the burning of books and banning of newspapers.
Hitler didn't just fool Germans, he fooled the world. Many Americans who traveled to Germany for the Olympics made comments about Hitler and his hospitality. They believed Hitler to be one of the greatest leaders and his people to be the happiest in the world.
Why was it so easy for Hitler to rise to power and convince an entire country that he was a hero when he was so obviously the opposite? Could such a thing happen again... and in America?
What is amazing to me is how Adolf Hitler was described as being spastic with epileptic tendencies always frothing at the mouth during his speeches and having shifty eyes. It was said that he would be the last person to approach on the streets if someone needed a light. Even so he had the ability to rise to Fuhrer and make people believe that all that he did was to better Germany: public executions, the torture of those who resist Hitler with steel whips and drills, the arrest of all Communists, the total breech of privacy for the public, the burning of books and banning of newspapers.
Hitler didn't just fool Germans, he fooled the world. Many Americans who traveled to Germany for the Olympics made comments about Hitler and his hospitality. They believed Hitler to be one of the greatest leaders and his people to be the happiest in the world.
Why was it so easy for Hitler to rise to power and convince an entire country that he was a hero when he was so obviously the opposite? Could such a thing happen again... and in America?