> 
> 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.

oops im getting lax here...