DBWI: 80 years since Nazi Rise to power

Nazi Germany, even after their "reforms", is still worse than the former USSR. I'd love a Nazi breakup rather than the Soviet breakup that occurred in our Great Cold War. It's amazing, anyway, how the Soviets managed to keep their European territory. I suppose that the Russian winter got Napoleon -- it might as well be able to take out Hitler's army.

I wonder how the average Nazi citizen feels about this octennial celebration. It would help it a lot in my view if the majority of the citizens were at least somewhat happy with the nationalized socialism that's still in force in Germany.

Break up? The intra-ethnic warfare in the Caucasus & name change in the 1990's wasnt that bad.
:rolleyes:

At least the SSC isnt spending 25% of it's GDP on re-painting rusty old tanks lunlike the Greater German Reich.
The Nazi regime may not ne as nasty nowadays but it has no allies & and Hitler's enabling laws still remain in place.


As a German... I do not nessacarily support the Regime, but im a proud German, we've come far since the days of Weimar. back to being a premier power of Europe. where the Reich belongs, but the old Nazi farts,, not so cool.

Eh? Recent scholarship such as Tooze's ''Wages of Chaos'' shows Germany was already pulling out of the Great Depression just as Hitler took power. The Nazi's were very in about gaining credit for an organic econmic upsurge. One which their pathalogical commitment to arms spnding did much to undrmine in the long-term.

As for the German place in Europe
, Weimar had gain great deal of sympathy & goodwill and could have made Germany the key-player in Europe using soft-power, rather than becoming a militarized pariah state.
 
Well at least the brits and the fritz are still in talks about demilitarising the channel islands. Might calm the tension a bit.

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For most historians, the most frightening portions of their history was the period of 1954-1964, the "Kulturrevolution" period, wherein anyone who didn't match the official policy of being an Aryan Nazi found themselves being the subject of harassment and intimidation....
 
For most historians, the most frightening portions of their history was the period of 1954-1964, the "Kulturrevolution" period, wherein anyone who didn't match the official policy of being an Aryan Nazi found themselves being the subject of harassment and intimidation....

You mean they have stopped doing that? It does not seem like such policies have ended. I've been there, and it was horrifying.
 
Regardless of its validity, "X group is not ready for democracy because of their culture" is an argument I've often seen in real life against many groups. See "Arab Exceptionalism" or arguments about origins of Russian authoritarianism for example. In a world where much of Europe is totalitarian I don't see why Americans wouldn't try to same the same thing about European culture. So if you think I should "suffer the consequences" for playing along, feel free to report me and let the mods decide.

Because this website has rules of conduct, and such statements on AH.com is liable to get the mods attention soon. I always thought the same rules of civility should apply to all DBWI`s, because regardless of which "universe" you are playing from you are still posting in ours. For what its worth, I`ve done my best to make my every DBWI entry according to my rule. Even so, if we take for granted that all these post have nothing to do with OTL (which I find dubious, since you are posting in OTL), I`d like to think alternate versions of AH.com aren`t Stormfront-like trollfests, weather it be a left-leaning or right-leaning world.
 
Well, we had similar celebrations last year, for the 90° anniversary of the rise to power of the Duce, Benito Mussolini. Not that there's much to celebrate: he may have been a great ruler*, but the current Duce, Mario Colonna, is as incompetent as a ruler can get, and Vittorio Emanuele IV is just a spineless retard who doesn't deserve his crown at all. Everyone knows that Silvio Berlusconi, Veronica Mussolini and Vincenzo Esposito are the ones that actually rule the Kingdom and the Empire, and they aren't doing a good job. You have all seen what they did in Sudan**.

* OOC: He is actually an all-around piece of shit, of course.

** OOC: "Sudan" is OTL South Sudan, while OTL Sudan is "Nubia".
 
You mean they have stopped doing that? It does not seem like such policies have ended. I've been there, and it was horrifying.

Well, the German leadership always points to the specific period as a time of chaos and disorder, whenever they are asked about how bad things could get. Never mind that they never seem to mention events like the nuclear accidents at Greifswald in 1975, or Hamm-Uentrop in 1986. Apparently mentioning those incidents can get you puled out of any sight-seeing group....
 
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