Eric takabayashi sed:
> What was Germany's real source of guilt?

oops i trimmed out a quote.   I said "voting hitler in to power", that
is, the common german bears far more responsibility for naziism than
the average japanese does for WW2 militarism.


The ongoing debate here is that hitler was not elected.  This is
technically true, the nazi party was the largest party, however, since
the german democracy at the time was multi-partied this means that
nazis were the most popular even though they had only one third of the
votes (i think).  Hindenburg (the president, again, im not exactly
sure how all this worked) appointed hitler chancellor.



Anyway, hitler's popularity skyrocketed after becoming chancellor and
after hindenburg (the president) died hitler destroyed the german
democracy with little or no opposition, and wouldnt have been able to
do so unless he was extraordinarily popular.


Germans like to pretend hitler found a loophole; he didnt.  austrian
born commoners who start their political career with no money or
political connections dont become fuerhers through a democratic
process because they're unpopular.