Young people are identifying with Hitler because young people tend to be rebellious and seek what is prohibited. Testing to "find where the boundaries are" is a normal part of transitioning from Childhood to Adulthood.
True. You can't tell the kids (especially boys) all day long that over there's the devil incarnate, but you are not allowed to look, and expect that kids won't be curious. I mean, how to rebel these days and get your parents and teachers freak out? Exactly.
Hitler rebelled against the New World Order, and his speeches have always been censored. Kids want to learn why.
True in some sense, but he was also duped by powers he didn't understand, and very quickly became the plaything of others for their own interests. These complexities are lost on those who just go from "wait a minute, the guy made some fair points" to "actually, he was the good guy". It's especially tragic since many of those who toy with neo-Nazism these days were furious about the Covid thing. Well, under Hitler it was much worse. You were facing societal hysteria on a grand scale and a frankly stupid mob you had to go along with or else.
Humans also naturally seek Structure, Order, and Predictability. They become neurotic and deeply unhappy without those things.
I'm afraid you are correct, but there are also those who would rather know the truth as best as they can, even if it's dangerous, than living in a society that tells them what to do and what to think. In that sense, neo-Nazism isn't the right call for truth seekers, even though some of those suddenly celebrating Hitler probably think of themselves as "truth seekers".
In this speech 3 months before the end of WWII Hitler foretold the future of the West if Germany lost. People today are desperate for any Leader willing to risk his life by speaking truth.
He says some very true things about the suffering of Germans there - the hunger blockade after WWI that killed around 800k Germans (his numbers are largely correct), his reference to German farmers literally having to ship part of their livestock to France continually, and so on. He is also correct that for all their talk, the allies refused to take in the Jewish refugees from Germany (and the Brits also tried to prevent the Zionists from getting hold of them). However, first, trying to purge Germany of all Jews just meant a whole lot of suffering of innocent people, while the real perpetrators (Jews and non-Jews alike) roamed free and took advantage of it all. Second, even assuming a revisionist stance for a moment in that Hitler didn't actually intend to kill the Jews but expel them, it's still a fact that there were absolute horrors that were done to the Jews, particularly in the east. Just as one example, one mass shooting of Jewish civilians (women, children and all) went on for 36 hours straight. Things like that. And no wonder, given the Nazis' policies. Also, in terms of other nations taking them in as refugees, this is empty rhetoric - what did Hitler expect? It should have been clear that this would never happen. So whether it was naiveté or calculation, he sent Jews to their death and worse on a massive scale.
There had been terrible, terrible massacres, torture, rape and savagery on all sides. The Germans in Poland suffered terribly at the hand of Poles after Versailles, and the Poles under the Nazis; the Britains massacred Palestinians in 1937 in a way that rivals the worst Holocaust gore stories. The British were blown to pieces and hanged from lampposts by Zionists. Britains savagely firebombed German civilians, and millions of German women were raped by Soviets and others. Germans slaughtered entire Jewish populations in certain places. It's almost as if history is pure terror. And depending on which part of the suffering you focus, you can steer sentiments in this or that direction.
Swinging from our current horror show to its inversion (Nazism) as a dialectical counter-move is inevitable in some sense, but it keeps those who so swing on the same level. Things are opening up "left and right" and everywhere - myths are shattered, the postwar consensus is falling, anything goes. Instead of allowing ourselves to be once more blindly controlled by history running its course, we should see it as an opportunity to grow in mind and soul, to see deeper, to further our understanding and ability to see things from many different perspectives - to better understand the human condition and therefore ourselves. It can be painful at times, but it's necessary.
If we are simply driven by our emotions and lack the depth of knowledge, character and wisdom to navigate this crazy reality, we will be swept under the wave instead of learning to ride it.
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