Hitler's record in WW I

[Ludovic]

@Derleth

not even the Klan was ever strong enough to do to us what the Brownshirts enabled the Nazis to do to Germany.

Unless you were black or Republican in post-reconstruction South. If that had happened across the country it would be as near an equivalence as you’re likely to get in history. I’d say post-reconstruction South was pretty messed up (as was Civil War era North, and south for that matter of course.)

[Derleth]

@Ludovic

Unless you were black or Republican in post-reconstruction South. If that had happened across the country it would be as near an equivalence as you’re likely to get in history. I’d say post-reconstruction South was pretty messed up (as was Civil War era North, and south for that matter of course.)

Right. My point is that the Klan is the closest we ever came, and even they didn’t have that power. Later movements (the Patriot groups, the Christian Identity movement, the radical Mormons, etc.) are all a lot smaller and a lot more fragmented.

[Otara]

More a reverse Godwin - taking a thread about a Hitler and derailing it with US politics.

Otara

[chowder]

@gonzomax

He should have won the German election. He was a war hero. What else do you need to know.

Have I missed something?

He won the election and was made chancellor in 1933

[sqweels]

@Ludovic

Unless you were black or Republican in post-reconstruction South. If that had happened across the country it would be as near an equivalence as you’re likely to get in history. I’d say post-reconstruction South was pretty messed up (as was Civil War era North, and south for that matter of course.)

Indeed, if you compare them side-by-side, you’ll find a lot of parallels between post WWI Germany and the post Civil War South.

Although ultimately the differences prevailed.