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u/SaibaManbomb · 22 pointsr/OutOfTheLoop

You completely ignored the link I posted, which refutes virtually everything in your tantrum. As it is your post does not give a genuine answer or perspective to help answer the question. Please educate yourself on sources other than Wikipedia, here are a few book recommendations.

u/AlexCoventry · 5 pointsr/CryptoCurrency

Money has always been a system of control. Nixon didn't invent it in 1970.
Graeber's Debt: The First 5000 Years gives a good account of the history, and his development of the "military-coinage-slavery" concept shows that it goes back to the time of the Buddha, Confucious and Pythagoras.

Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State also gives accounts of how the Nazis used finance as a system of control.

u/belizehouse · 4 pointsr/worldnews

This book explains the degree to which we reconstructed Europe, the alternate plan, and some political reasons why we decided to save half your continent from totalitarianism.

This book, p 340-460, details how Christian realists and statesmen like Herbert Hoover turned away from the Morgenthau plan, for moral and spiritual reasons, and instead fed the world and made it fit for living in.

This book destroys your typical European conception of nazi occupation outside the typical France/Ukraine dichotomy and shows how Germans starved Greek families and created orphans so they could have Christmas feasts.

This book is a magisterial account of the European contribution to reconstruction and shows that I'm not some halfwit barbarian that thinks everything in the world comes from my country. It just wouldn't have been possible without the help of my country.

This book documents the degree to which the nazi war machine violated the Hague Conventions of the 1890s and looted all countries under their control. They imposed inflation on France (RKK certificate to civilian -> civilian to bank -> bank to central bank -> central bank to trash can ; print franc), used their soldiers as mules, how they 'purchased' goods in the East etc. Very useful for debunking the 1950s Soviet disinformation that was based on the idea that American administration was bumbling. Did you know we sent them ground corn instead of baguettes, sausage, and free shoes? How incompetent! And if a German lost their home we didn't give them a fully furnished one. How mean-spirited! lol

Read those books or at least four on the reconstruction of Europe and ask me that question again.

u/LefordMurphy · 2 pointsr/history

>Not a single German who refused to kill a Jew was demoted, sent to concentration camp, assigned to a suicide mission or sentenced to death.

>On the contrary: such orders commonly included an offer that "anyone who did not feel up to the upcoming task could come forward." Nevertheless, this occurred only in exceptional cases. Those who did opt out were neither taunted nor pressured, but treated with consideration. They were given different duties, often back home. There were always others willing to take over the murders--the "proven pragmatist" Himmler could be sure of that. Men were generally eager for the job ,as, for example, on a November evening in 1942 in Lukow, Poland, when musicians and performers from the Berlin police department came to entertain Police Battalion 101: "They also learned of the forthcoming shooting," according to witnesses, "and offered, even pleaded emphatically for permission to participate in the execution of these Jews. This strange request was granted by the battalion."(page 395). This means that voluntary mass murder was seen as a social pastime and a thrill - without the necessity of orders.

>The book shows concretely how good the perpetrators felt before, during and after their "operations"; how they humiliated, beat, and tortured defenseless people and then shot them in the back of the neck without the slightest hesitation; how the men posed before their living or dead victims, laughing into the camera - bloodthirsty, sadistic, lascivious. After they had done their day's work, they celebrated with a "death banquet" for the Jews, went to bed with their lovers, or wrote home faithfully that these snapshots and extermination anecdotes would someday be "extremely interesting to our children."

--götz aly, the famous german historian
http://www.yadvashem.org/download/about_holocaust/studies/aly_full.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6tz_Aly


Some reccomeneded reading:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Good-Old-Days-Perpetrators/dp/1568521332

http://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Beneficiaries-Plunder-Racial-Welfare/dp/0805087265/ref=pd_sim_14_7?ie=UTF8&dpID=514AHPryUJL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR105%2C160_&refRID=05Y7VNBGT0ENBSGJ0Y3B

http://www.amazon.com/World-Without-Jews-Imagination-Persecution/dp/0300212518/ref=pd_sim_14_8?ie=UTF8&dpID=51Ecr%2BivaDL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR107%2C160_&refRID=08WPD7EPW7WHM64VTB04

You seem enamored of a great myth, that germans were ignorant victims, forced into murdering millions of women and children by a small cabal of evil nazis. All the evidence suggests that's a lie, they gladly supported hitler and wanted "the germ of humanity" (jews in hitler's words) dead.

u/Nikolasv · 2 pointsr/Israel

Well according to you the IDF should probably disband and/or lose their next conflicts/wars to Palestinians and Arab armies. I don't think your origins sway the people of Israel. Similarly it wouldn't have swayed the Eastern European nations victimized by Germanic imperialism for centuries, two world wars and who suffered far more civilian casualties and bodycounts. Holier than though people like you want to feel good by pretending to be above conflicts as if say you were vacationing in Israel and Arab armies did ever win -- they would give you any differential treatment for being an anti-Zionist traitor, or if the Nazis if they won would have dolt out treatment Jews based on their behavior instead based on their imposed racialized identity according to Aryanism. Even Jews that wanted nothing to do with Judaism and who wanted assimilation were sent to death.

The Germans much the like the Pallies you love are chauvinist enough and don't need your help. Germany/Germans/the Axis alone killed 20 million civilians in Russia, I am not gonna cry for perpetrators because in turn they were mostly expelled with their lives intact. Indeed the newest German national tactic is reframing history to see themselves as "victims of Nazism" who didn't either support or materially benefit from Aryanism -- a funny idea you apparently share:
http://www.timesofisrael.com/german-poll-indicates-dramatic-change-in-perception-of-wwii/

Instead of beneficiaries of conquest, booty, genocide:
https://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Beneficiaries-Plunder-Racial-Welfare/dp/0805087265

u/sektabox · 2 pointsr/europe

The stated GDP of Germany is bullshit. They were up to their ears in debt in 1938. Yes, they were manufacturing lots of weapons and buidling autobahns but that was mostly borrowed money. On paper they looked good. Reaility was different.

Details here:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0805087265/?tag=stackoverfl08-20

Even after WW2 Germany would have failed to its knees it it werent't for the US taxpayer. Some more here:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/economic-historian-germany-was-biggest-debt-transgressor-of-20th-century-a-769703.html

u/kazoooom · 2 pointsr/pics

Yep, prime example for pop cultural revisionism.

If you want to "feel" the "German side of" WWII, read a book (1, 2), or at least Wikipedia, but stay away from bullshit like this.

u/[deleted] · 1 pointr/politics

Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0805087265/

u/cassander · 1 pointr/history

I think that was a fantastic book, but I'm not sure. I read it at the same time as Hitler's Beneficiaries and can never remember which things I read in which book. You should check them both out.

u/usa_not_powerful · 0 pointsr/europe
u/usa_rebuilt_europe · -17 pointsr/worldnews

Germany pulled itself up by their bootstraps after looting Europe and being bombed to oblivion, right? We messed up by feeding them corn feed (they thought it was for chickens) instead of nice sausages from the East and baguettes from France, right?

https://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Beneficiaries-Plunder-Racial-Welfare/dp/0805087265