WASHINGTON D.C. - As details leak of the Iran-US peace plan, including a rumoured $300 billion reparations payment from the US to the Iranian regime, President Donald Trump was quick to reassure supporters that this by no means indicates that the US lost the war.
The last two videos of this playlist seems to suggest that hyper inflation in Germany could have been avoided… and that’s a lot of what fueled Hitler’s rise:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AM2pncU4rs&list=PLMUzeMKhbl10X-XzH-6q4iU0Ysul7cC4c&index=13
It’s been said “Fascism is Capitalism’s immune system”… Hitler used the “Jewish backstabbing” mythology because of the mass poverty. Hitler went after “degenerate culture” in Berlin because mass poverty caused all sorts of sex acts and drugs to be sold as part of the city’s underbelly/gray market. According to the documentary below, whole families went into prostitution:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWqnnUeD6cw
I think it’s playing it up a bit in that documentary, but I do believe a lot of this stuff related to mass poverty, caused by economic destruction, and a lack of care post WW1. I’m a believer in the theory that fascism is a product of failed economics, and political disenfranchisement. I meant, I might even argue that Donald Trump’s first term came off the back of the 2008 financial crisis, and his more recent term came after COVID’s economic disruptions.
I’m not disagreeing with about economic disruptions and how anxiety around those disruptions influenced public perception and support leading into WWII.
Just wondering how long powerful men in the military and government have been manipulating public perception.
Especially given the stab-in-the-back myth seemed to be Ludenhorff’s excuse for Germany’s failure under his military leadership following WWI.