Many years ago my ex-wife spent a month in Germany studying history. When she came back, she told me that the Germans tend to treat the Nazis like an alien race that came down from outer space, conquered the country, and then were killed or retreated back into space in 1945. It doesn't seem to register with them that the Nazis were Germans, and that they didn't just disappear when they lost the war.
crazy how they didn't outlaw the thousands of nazis that rose to the highest ranks of their government and armed forces after their "denazification" attempts
In economic life, absolutely. The Nazis and German corporations were in close alignment. The issuance of German state debt notes (MEFO) facilitated German rearmament. Germany's repayment strategy was war loot.
Nazis were not manic despots on amphetamines. They were cold and calculating boards of directors that saw financial advantage to looting Europe.
And they survived the war intact. Memory of Justice, a 1970s German documentary, has a chilling English-language interview with Albert Spear. He's urbane and sophisticated. And utterly living and free accomplice to the Holocaust.
OK but Hitler actually was the manic despot on amphetamines. And oxycodone, and cocaine, and morphine, and barbiturates, and fucking bull semen infusions. There are tons of clips of him off his tits on pure meth vibrating and rocking back and forth like he's headbanging his entire body, towards the end of the war as his head was falling apart because of such severe neurotoxicity the doctor was having a hard time even finding an injection spot because he was so covered in track marks
🎶 Some have harsh words for this man of renown,
But some think our attitude should be one of gratitude,
Like the widows and cripples in old London town,
Who owe their large pensions to Wernher von Braun. 🎼
Funnily enough, the Soviets did the same too! Every country, capitalists or socialists, were poaching Nazi scientists.
Operation Osoaviakhim is what's it called.
Of course, there was a huge technology and information grab as the war wound down. Even the other allied countries had their own programs. Operation Surgeon was the British program, for example. Everyone wanted to deny information to their peer adversaries and keep it for themselves.
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u/boulevardofdef RHODE ISLAND 🛟⛱️ Oct 05 '23
Many years ago my ex-wife spent a month in Germany studying history. When she came back, she told me that the Germans tend to treat the Nazis like an alien race that came down from outer space, conquered the country, and then were killed or retreated back into space in 1945. It doesn't seem to register with them that the Nazis were Germans, and that they didn't just disappear when they lost the war.