Why have you chosen to single out my post regarding Hitler? Odd. Perhaps I offended you when I called Hitler a nut?
None of Hitler's thoughts was original. The Germans were attracted to him for he symbolized and preached what was the German mindset of the time and that mindset itself shaped Hitler from a boy to the adult who symbolized then German Values. 1. Master Race = tons of research was done into the impact of Darwinian ethics on German thought in the pre-Nazi era and its ultimate influence on Hitler's ideology One of the leaders before Hitler came to power was the physician Alfred Ploetz, the founding father of the race hygiene or eugenics movement in Germany, whose goal was to improve human heredity by rationally controlling reproduction. 2. The term anti-Semitism was coined by German journalist Wilhelm Marr in 1879. He also set up the League of Anti-Semites. Throughout the 19th century bitterness towards the Jews continued to rise, partly because Jews had began to move up in society when they had won rights. When the May Laws of 1882 forced Jews to leave their towns and move into cities, this caused more ecomonic as well as cultural success for the Jewish population which was unparalleled for the time. 3. True, it is a fixed idea with the French that the Rhine is their property, but to this arrogant demand the only reply worthy of the German nation is Arndt's: "Give back Alsace and Lorraine". For I am of the opinion, perhaps in contrast to many whose standpoint I share in other respects, that the reconquest of the German-speaking left bank of the Rhine is a matter of national honour, and that the Germanisation of a disloyal Holland and of Belgium is a political necessity for us. Shall we let the German nationality be completely suppressed in these countries, while the Slavs are rising ever more powerfully in the East?" Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx's co-author 4. Hitler Promised the Germans in his speeches and his writings of a thousand years of German rule over Europe, the creation of a "Thousand-Year Reich." -'This is our calling, that we shall become the templars of this Grail, gird the sword round our loins for its sake and stake our lives joyfully in the last, holy war which will be followed by the thousand-year reign of freedom." Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx's co-author 5. I could go on and on but the bottom line was that Hitler did not play on people's fears, he did not manipulate them, Hitler just told them what they wanted to hear for it was his belief and the German mindset of the time. Sorry but it is true Hitler was a Nationalist Socialist, only wanted it for the pure German race that he will help shape, and the vast majority of German people loved him for he did not only lead them but represented him. The miltary saw a chance for untold glory, the industrialist thought they could control him but either were taken over or played ball and made millions more from slave labor, taking out of competition and feeding the war machine. Goring was either killed or allowed to die by being provided with posion after being locked up and awaiting trial which meant he was directly or indirectly silenced for various reasons which I will not go into at this time for it takes us off the subject that the Germans followed Hitler for that was what they wanted to do and Hitler was a nationalistic socialist.