Saturday, January 06, 2007

Day Four at the Academy, oh yeah the Nazi thing.

The first week is over and we all survived. Friday was the hazardous materials awareness level training and certification. I am for sure not a hazmat guy. I was surprised to find, along with my 10 recruits, 18 other students that I had no idea were going to be there. OSU had not sent enough student manuals, ERG's, or test. But we got through. I guess I should have prefaced that whole "success of the Nazi party thing" with this; how the Nazi party was able to be successful in becoming powerful in government. Some would say it was a charismatic leader. Okay if a college drop-out, wannabe artist, closet homosexual, meth addict is a definition of a charismatic leader. And by the way, Hitler was not part Jewish. The Nazi party was so successful at taking over a country (Germany) that only a few years before had been defeated in war was because they were involved. Involved in everything. The Nazi party grew because they infiltrated every level of German society. My Pappy was a tanker in WWII in Normandy. He seldom talked of his experiences in specific detail. For the most part he kept it all inside. He did not hate any of the opponents he fought, he was doing his job. He did dislike the French. He felt like they just rolled over for Germany and waited for the Allies to bail them out.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Ok Big Guy, Put your history hat on and grab a good place to sit. The Brown Shirts did most of the dirty work that brought Hitler and the Nazi party to power. Germany had been kicked down so hard at the end of WWI that everyone blamed that settlement on the Depression (that was world wide) They blamed the jews for the financial disaster. Hitler focused the hate on a class of people and led Germany places that they should have not gone. On the night of the long knives, the SS troopers rounded up and in most cases killed the leaders of those Brown Shirts. Hitler was from then on owned by the SS and they were the tool Hitler, Himler and others used to do all the bad things Germany did during the war. In some cases the SS troops were the used in the actual battles but for the most part they were used to exrminate Jews and Russians. Had Hitler unified Germany and not attacked Poland and France, there is a chance he could have remained in power for many years. On the side of right, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Dennis