A CONTRARIAN POSITION ON GERMANY
Well aside from camps, if the germans HAD merely relocated ‘hostiles to other geographies (as the russians did), then as far as I know, the germans WERE the good guys in keeping the east at bay, in domesticating the east by trade, in the reformation against the corruption of the church, in the spread ofliteracy, in the wars of religion, in the war against napoleon’s destruction and conquest of europe, in the german unification, in their second scientific revolution, and in the first world war. Even in the second world war, in the choice between french imperial authoritarianism, Russian totaliatarian communism, and anglo liberalism, the nazis were largely correct in their attempt to create a secular national religion, to restore the holy roman empire of the german people, to continue their evolution of the east into modernity, to resist the Russians and the communists, when liberalism in central europe was as impossible at eastern stages of development, as liberalism was for russia in domestication of the entirety of their empire.
So you know. It doesn’t matter what I think. What matters is that the evidence of consequences is that the Germans were correct. If for no other reason than to prevent totalitarian france and totalitarian russia from a repeat of the napoleonic destruction of all germans had worked twoard for over a thousand years.
It’s pretty hard to argue against national socialism. It’s just harder to argue against a century of war and postwar propaganda.
I don’t have the ‘right’ so to speak. My job requires I make judgements, not render opinions.
Sorry.
Just is.
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Source date (UTC): 2023-05-24 14:47:55 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1661383530239209475
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