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Mr. Luddite

On 11/7/2015 9:38 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 7 Nov 2015 18:27:46 -0800 (PST), True North
wrote:

Mr. Luddite
"Watching a new series on "The History Channel" called "Hunting Hitler".

The part being aired right now is the period giving rise to Hitler
following WWI, the Great Depression, it's global economic affects and
the lead up to WWII.

Eerily similar to some things going on today."

I'm recording and watching that series also. The ones I've seen show teams of investigators traveling to Argentine, Germany etc. Trying to figure out if he really did die in the bunker or escaped to German enclaves in South America.

Yeah and I saw Elvis at the walmart. ;-)

I think hitler's death has been investigated pretty extensively and
there were a number of witnesses who would have no reason to lie 20 or
30 years later.

I may check out the show but isn't this about the 10th History Channel
show about hitler? I am sure we will see Traudl Junge and the other
regulars there.

The part that I was watching wasn't about questions of what happened to
Hitler at the end of the war. It was more on the events leading to
WWII. Learned some things I never knew before about FDR, Neville
Chamberlain and Winston Churchhill.

FDR was fighting the Depression by instituting massive government
welfare programs, paid for by severely cutting military/defense budgets.
He really didn't "borrow" to pay for them. Chamberlain was taking
similar actions. Hitler took the opposite tact and started spending
heavily on military equipment and programs that employed German citizens
much like what Putin is doing in Russia today. Churchill is the one who
started raising the alarms and began putting pressure on the rest of the
world to prepare for war. By the time war came, no one was prepared
to deal with Germany's overpowering military strength.
Chamberlain's policy of "appeasement" failed and Britain was close to
being lost. The USA was also caught flat-footed militarily when the
Japanese struck.

The big difference then ... that doesn't exist now ... is that the USA
had a huge manufacturing capacity that turned on and began producing
equipment and supplies for the war effort. We don't have that today,
but the next world war probably won't need it. It will be over quickly.