The Cold War? Child’s play compared to what lies ahead, according to U.S. historian Robert Kagan. Trump, he says, is leading the world into the most dangerous era since 1945.
The Cold War? Child’s play compared to what lies ahead, according to U.S. historian Robert Kagan. Trump, he says, is leading the world into the most dangerous era since 1945.
Did you know Hitler just took over the movement created by his mentor?
I didn’t until recently
Down to the lil mustache and everything…
I didn’t know. No wonder that it is never mentioned.
•In the summer of 1919, after the war’s conclusion, Hitler was assigned to the Education and Propaganda Department of the German military in Bavaria. The department was run by Captain Karl Mayr, whose orders were to use army assets to keep the civilian population under surveillance in order to avoid future unrest and uprisings. (This was a reasonable mission, considering the wave of uprisings, several of them communist in nature, in the final days of the war.)
Well that’s certainly strange. That it all seems to go back to civilian surveillance and concerns about communist uprisings. What’s this Karl Mayr guy’s story?
•Mayr later became Hitler’s opponent, and wrote in his memoirs that General Erich Ludendorff had personally ordered him to have Hitler join the German Workers’ Party (DAP) and build it up.
Who?
•After the war, Ludendorff became a prominent nationalist leader and a promoter of the stab-in-the-back myth, which posited that Germany’s defeat and the settlement reached at Versailles were the result of a treasonous conspiracy by Marxists, Freemasons and Jews. … He also took part in the failed 1920 Kapp Putsch and 1923 Beer Hall Putsch before unsuccessfully standing in the 1925 election for president. Thereafter, he retired from politics and devoted his final years to the study of military theory. His most famous work in this field was The Total War, where he argued that a nation’s entire physical and moral resources should remain forever poised for mobilization because peace was merely an interval in a never-ending chain of wars.
•as an antisemitic and anti-communist conspiracy theory that was widely believed and promulgated in Germany after 1918. It maintained that the Imperial German Army did not lose World War I on the battlefield, but was instead betrayed by certain citizens on the home front – especially Jews, revolutionary socialists who fomented strikes and labour unrest,[1] and republican politicians who had overthrown the House of Hohenzollern in the German Revolution of 1918…When Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party rose to power in 1933, they made the conspiracy theory an integral part of their official history of the 1920s, portraying the Weimar Republic as the work of the “November criminals” who had “stabbed the nation in the back” in order to seize power.