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"Hunting Hitler"
On Sat, 7 Nov 2015 23:43:50 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: 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. They write these things down The debt was $16.1B in 1930 and $40b is 1939. Somebody was borrowing money. After that they were raiding the SS trust fund, a practice that continued until recently when SS went upside down and there was no more money to raid. 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. hitler had a captive economy and he was able to print Marks to cover his buildup. He also called on his people to sacrifice more than they were willing to do before the buildup, same as FDR. I agree the war brought Germany out of the depression earlier than it brought us out but that is the way of popular military buildups where the citizens are willing to pitch in. Our problem now is we spend $800B a year and it is painless to the population since we are not paying for it. 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. We were not ignorant of what was going on in Europe and the possibility of going there was not seen as impossible, the doughboys just got back less than 2 decades before but FDR stood up and promised us he was going to stay out. "Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars... blah blah" similar to LBJ 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. The only reason we need it is because it would pull us out of the upcoming depression. Like I said, the government doesn't have many bullets left in the gun next time. |
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