What did your teachers tell you about Nazi Germany what was their excuse for why so many people followed Hitler the old...

What did your teachers tell you about Nazi Germany what was their excuse for why so many people followed Hitler the old lie I was told is they were forced at gunpoint to follow him my old history teacher told me everyone had to have portraits of Hitler in their house and this one family was killed because they didn't hang theirs up.

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They didnt touch why anybody followed Hitler. It's always the same stuff about him wanting to create a superior race and genociding everything and youre a nazi sympathizer if you try digging deeper

We were told that Jews were scapegoats for everyone's problems and that most people in Germany at the time had no clue what was going on

He was just this one guy working in a trailer out back nobody knew what he was doing until it was too late.

yep and endless videos/pictures of dead jews. very little was actually taught about the war itself

I was told that German politicians overspending had thrust Germany into a depression and their currency had turned into Zimbabwe dollars, The politicians blamed the depression on the Jewish bankers. People were starving when Hitler came into power and he said everything everyone wanted to hear, including exiling the jewish bankers and anyone that had caused the depression.

i was told that the people genuinely believed hitler would do good, but then he started doing things that were bad.

basically what happened except he didn't purposefully try to kill off the jews.

School version:
Jews were scapegoats for financial issues and contract of versaille felt unfair

Actual reason:
1. Women were allowed to vote and the NSDAP were sexy. They marched and were tidy and friendly. They promised good treatment for mothers.
2. French invaded Germany and occupied the coal industry + other land, based on bullshit in versaille contract
3. Weimar Republic after WW1 was a desaster, the young democracy had no experience and it was inefficient in rebuilding the country. Inefficiency and corruption eroded the credibility
4. Treaty of versaille was so bad that it is commonly agreed by historians, that the treaty was the reason for WW2, there was no way to prevent Germany from becoming sovereign without the 2nd war. If the NSDAP didn't take power, the communists would have.

I just remember learning a bunch of shit about "Hitler was a military genius, Hitler was an economic genius, Hitler was one of the greatest leaders of all time" juxtaposed by "Hitler was the most evil person to ever live, Hitler was unarguably bad, Jews were the scapegoats of Germany, the German people blamed Jews for everything bad." So it was like conflicting messages. On one hand I always liked Hitler and thought he was cool, on the other hand I always felt guilty about it and "knew" Hitler was "bad" deep down.

(((Education))) really fucks you up, you never really know if your opinions are your own or if they were implanted into your brain at a young age.

they did it because it was glorious...

marginalized people always seek glory...

Correct, Hitler actually offered safety and stable programs to get the german industry back on track. Some ideas were so successful that these socialist projects are still around, Thyssen + Volkswagen and other global players from Germany

Hitler promised to not spend money on the treaty of versaille and just start the industry by doing road projects and rebuild infrastructure to get the industry going

However breaking the treaty of versaille would be a declaration of war which caused the french to invade germany and occupy the coal industry, which then caused the spiraling into WW2

>If the NSDAP didn't take power, the communists would have.

Yeah thats why the Novemberrevolution worked out so well for the Communists, didnt it?

Oh wait, they hilariously lost to Social Democrats...

They told me he was exceptionally charismatic and that his policies allayed the fears and appeased the desires of the people; a strong nation like the 2nd Reich, the purging of undesirables and ultimate expelling of the Jews for their relatively easy lives and over-representation within power during the Weimar Period.

Surprisingly enough in my school we didn't touch too much on the holocaust, it was mainly focused on the war itself, we had to do a seminar on nazi germany though, pretty fun stuff, my teacher wasn't bluepilled nor redpilled, though she didn't like commies

I heard the same bs as you OP. Also because they were ebil

He said they were pissed they were starving because "of the treaty of Versailles screwing germany over" and said how they scapegoated jews. Mentioned how after the nazis were in power they fixed their economy and ended up hosting the Olympic games.

It's been years so I forgot most of it, but one year my entire grade had to watch that Escape from Sobibor movie in the school auditorium. Pretty sure the curriculum coverage of the Nazis was entirely negative. Went to a private Protestant Christian school up through highschool.

Catholic school here

We had a mock vote in class when going over Nazi Germany. After getting all the facts everyone overwhelmingly voted for Hitler.

Between november revolution and NSDAP taking power was quite some time, mountain goat
the communists were working hard on overthrowing the goverment, like hitler did when he first tried to forcefully take power - during his time in prison, he worked out how to legally take power, while the communists worked on taking power by force

well that's true, you'd be arrested for even telling a joke about Hitler

>le facism is le utopia and the state never turns on its own citizens ebinnnn

fuck off, you'd kill yourself if you lived in nazi germany because they'd force you to get a job

They didn't really go over it at all. We basically has a unit on the World Wars and the political side of it came down to "Germans are the baddies" and that was it.

Read this book
wikispooks.com/wiki/File:The_Rise_And_Fall_Of_The_Third_Reich.pdf

The author that wrote it was a corrispondent in Germany up to 1941 and interacted with many of the key players at the time.

Will open up your eyes to national socialism and hitler, there are other players in this game, including (german) communists but more importantly the junkers (feudal landlords, Bismark war one), the officer/army class, the industrialists, couple of more. None of them espoused individual liberties that are common to the English speaking world

marx and hitler both trace themselves to hegel, who basically argues collectevistm. Its a little more involved but all this socialist crap comes from a common german source.

it works great if you are a collectivist cog and don't mind loosing your fingers in the east.