Why hitler was right

If Rep. Miller was the least bit interested in history, she would visit the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center to learn just how wrong Hitler really was. Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive officer of the Anti-Defamation League, said Miller should at the very least apologize for her comments. An apology is the least you can do for your constituents and our country.

Even before she took office, Miller had vowed to join a group of Republicans trying to overturn the results of the presidential election that saw Democrat Joe Biden defeat Trump. She replaced Shimkus, of Collinsville, who spent 12 terms in Congress and decided not to run for reelection in The count was interrupted by chaos, however, as mob stormed the Capitol and the building was locked down. Sign up here to have it delivered to your inbox weekday afternoons. And another intuition, which was that the destruction of the state was very important.

In practice, as I argue in the book, Jews die where states are destroyed. This is something that he says right from the beginning of Mein Kampf , all the way through. And likewise, I was struck that Hitler explicitly said that states are temporary, state borders will be washed away in the struggle for nature. In other words, the anarchy that he creates was actually there in the theory from the beginning.

He says from the very beginning, what we have to do is destroy the Jews; strip away the artificial political creations that the Jews are responsible for; and let nature just take its course.

He only believes in the race. If Hitler had just been a German nationalist who wanted to rule over Germans—if he was just an authoritarian who wanted to have a strong state—the Holocaust could not have happened.

The Holocaust could happen because he was neither of those things. And as far as he was concerned, if the Germans lost, that was also alright. So be it. And insofar as German power reaches outward, beginning in , and destroys Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland, and then tries to destroy the Soviet Union, it creates a zone where the escalation of the Final Solution is possible.

That of course never happens. So, Hitler uses popular frustrations to come to power. He uses the Great Depression to come to power. He presents himself precisely as a German nationalist who is going to get the German economy going, who is going to bring Germans inside the borders of Germany. He actually just wants to manipulate their attachment to Germany—to toss them out into this struggle, which will purify them and so on.

Delman: You have this leader of a major power. In your view, could a leader who thinks this way ever be rational? Could they understand cause-and-effect and cost-and-benefit? So clearly he was politically rational, or he was means-ends rational. Whether he could see the world in an entirely rational way—there I would say no.

You can create this fictional world in which you live, and which guides you and which allows you to move forward. In fact, it can even be a source of your success. They were mainly thinking about the future revolution, which would be possible once the war got started.

The huge Wehrmacht [German army] makes sense as an instrument to destroy other armies. The SS makes sense as an instrument to destroy other states. He built up this new capacity to impose a racial worldview on other countries.

I mean, what happened to German Jews was dreadful, but German Jews were not actually killed in significant numbers in prewar Germany. The total is a couple hundred. Jews could only really be killed once Hitler got himself out of the box of Germany and used this German racial power that he created over the six years to wipe out other states. Sure, there was lots of anti-Semitism in, for example, Vienna, but the Jews of Vienna were murdered in Belarus.

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