Unfortunately a very large percentage supported it. When you take the time to understand what they were facing and the time period, they were desperate. They saw Hitler as the savior of Germany. Who was going to pull them out and restore the Reich.
There were dissenters but not as many as we would wish. Many of them actually have their lives to disent and many kept silent to keep their lives. Again, the average German person believed in their countries and people are easy to sway. They will get caught up in the fervor, especially when desperate enough.
Not being ignorant about what happen in the world does not mean “being an edgelord”.
Nazi symbols in games are not legally banned anywhere anymore. Like it or not.
The difference is that the Nazis took power through voting. Hitler explicitly wanted to do things legally, after his failed Putsch in Bavaria. He was constantly at odds with the Sturmabteilung who wanted a violent overthrow of the Weimar government. It’s unfortunate, but Hitler and the Nazis were voted in.
The German people were desperate after the Great Depression and the humiliation they endured at Versailles.
The Soviet government is a faulty comparison because they took power through military force in the Russian Revolution.
Hmm hmm ok. You still haven’t made a strong counterargument. Especially because only after 2 years, the economy of the USSR was worse than it was in 1913. Meaning by the time we hit into WW2, they would still be struggling.
I’m not sure what the economy of the USSR has to do with the Nazis taking power in Germany. But anyway my point is that the Nazis were very popular in Germany at their time and they stayed in power because of their effective use of propaganda. For example they made the narrative of Operation Barbarossa a European crusade against communism. That’s why there were SS divisions for even countries like France.
It’s true that there were German resistance groups, but the fact of the matter is that the vast majority of Germans were in support of the Nazis throughout the war.
America is colloquialy accepted as the United States of America.
What you are referring to is “The Americas”, which compromises South, Central, and North America. Around the world, America is accepted as being the United States…
If I wanted to say “North America” or “South America” I would say so, but almost everyone I know calls the USA America, If I was to use America to mean “North and South America,” I would say “The Americas”
My point is you are making it seem like that everyone in Germany supported said party. When in reality that was far from the truth, it was relatively even. You had a very large opposition to the idea of Nazis the issue is they are either missing, dead, or interrogated. A large group with little to no say.
Aside from this, I mention the Soviets because it was the same case, many did not support them but carried on with life cause it wasn’t their business to question others they would probably end up in a grave.
This is the reality of things, you say anything, you become a tombstone or a wooden plaque if you lived under either regime.
Yeah, me too. I think a lot of people put swastikas on their tanks because they’re edgy 14 year olds or something. Most of the time anyway. Not really sure what he’s going on about nazism being on the rise again but I also don’t want to get political in my tank game forum lol.