Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.heimat.gr.jp!taurus!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!not-for-mail From: superoutland@aol.com (SuperOutland) Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan,soc.culture.japan Subject: Re: More proof white-wannabe japs just mimic americans Date: 8 Nov 2004 13:26:44 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <_ifhd.782$a24.768@trndny07> <70qdo05300oqr2v1qt3nkta96052nvg819@4ax.com> <418D9EE7.D92D2F67@yahoo.co.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.120.86.94 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1099949205 15882 127.0.0.1 (8 Nov 2004 21:26:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 21:26:45 +0000 (UTC) Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:21554 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.