Re: 9/11 And some interseting facts
sk8ngame said:
who the hell are you to tell us about WWII??? you guys f***kin killed millions of innocent people, and you want us to believe that one our greatest fu**in presidents let Pearl Harbor happen???? no, no way, get the hell out of here, i agree bush is a screwup, but i mean seriously FDR did so much for this country and to say that is just plain ignorance... and you have no right to say anything about our leaders, because if i recall correctly, your elders let a psycopathic hateful dictator become the leader of your country.
i have nothing against german people, just ignorant people from countrys with that background, that give our country $h!t when there not great themselves.
Not sure about FDR and Pearl Harbor, but what about those Japanese Internment Camps? Yeah, so much for "everyone is equal". Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, and the president gets scared and decides to lock up all the Japanese in America. In other senarios, America hypocritically bitches about their rights when they don't even extend it towards others. Yeah, I'm sure the founding fathers made the Bill of Rights for that purpose.
sk8ngame said:
and you have no right to say anything about our leaders, because if i recall correctly, your elders let a psycopathic hateful dictator become the leader of your country.
Dude, what grade are you in? Ever learn anything in World History? If you've taken World History, you've obviously shown that you didn't pay attention in that class.
Sorry for the history lesson. Back in November of 1918, World War I was ending, and Germany was litterally in chaos. Then in 1919, this new German Republic drafted a constitution in the city of Weimar, creating the democratic government known as the Weimar Republic. I'm not going to dive into details, but basically this government was horrible. The economy still sucked, they were in debt and to make things worse, they thought they could do something about it and started printing TONS and TONS of German Marks (their currency), which resulted in the mass inflation of EVERYTHING. If something cost 100 marks, by next year it would cost 944,000 marks. All it did was make things worse.
The also French decide to take the Ruhr Valley, a region that produced 80% of German iron and coal (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhr_Valley). Now their economy was screwed up the butt. Then the US (yes, the US) passes the Dawes Plan of 1924 to help Germany recover (although this was because the US had stocks in Germany, and they didn't want those stocks to die). Oh, and the Treaty of Versailles completely jips the Germans when World War I ends (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles_(1919)).
Now, on to Adolf Hitler, the oh-so infamous man. Born in Austria in 1889, he was 18 when he tried enrolling in a Vienna art school, but got rejected. At that time, Vienna was the capital of the multinational Hapsburg empire. Austrian Germans were the minority, but felt racially superior to Jews, Serbs, Poles and other ethnic/religious groups. During his stay in Vienna, Hitler developed the fanatical anti-Semitism that would play a big role later in his rise to power. He fought in World War I, and despised the Weimar Republic. In 1919 he joined a small group of right-wing extremists. In about one year, he was the leader of the National Socialist German Workers, or the Nazi Party. Later in 1923, he tried to seize power in Munich, but failed. He was then jailed and that was when he wrote Mein Kampf (My Struggle), the "Bible" per se, of the Nazi Party. It basically reflected his obsessions - extreme nationalism, racism and anti-Semitism.
When he left prison, he basically went on all these political speeches and rallies. Since Germany was hit hard by the Great Depression, everyone was losing faith in the Weimar Republic (keep in mind, a democratic government too), because nothing was being done to help it's citizens and economy. Hitler promised to fix all that if given power. He promised to fix the the country's high unemployment rates (by 1942, 43% of the German work force was unemployed). He promised to also rearm Germany, used nationalism and promised to return Germany to it's glory days of Bismark and all that. By then, Nazi membership was almost to a million. Guess what? He did do what he promised.
With Nazis and Communists gaining more seats in the Reichstag (the Germany parliament), they finally decided to make Hitler the Chancellor of Germany (Prime Minister). Thus, he was legally the Head of State. In one year, he gained full power and pretty much turned Germany into a one-party state, under the Nazis. Like Stalin, he turned Germany into a totalitarian state.
You're probably thinking they were nuts for making Hitler the Chancellor of Germany, but you have to realize something. To Germans, he was almost like a saint. When he gained power, unemployment litterally ceased to exist, the economy was up and running and people were happy. However, his fanatical ideas did force him to become this maniac whom we all know of him today. The rest is history.
Sorry for the whole lesson and all, but before you go rambling on about someone else's national heritage, you should know what you're talking about first. You obviously didn't, so I thought I'd enlighten you.
