[smackay]

you forgot the homosexual tyrants, the gypsy tyrants, the slav tyrants and not forgetting the tyrants with disabilities.

The takeover of the German state by the National Socialist party was little more than a coup by a gang of thugs, psycopaths and criminals. The persecution of Jews and other minorities was just a convenient scapegoat to drag the majority of the population along. The horrible crimes perpretated during this period cannot in anyway be ascribed as a (popular) uprising.

[scarmig]

German Nazis and German Communists (who were very much not the fluffy Euro-Communists of the Cold War) made up a majority of the German population. The ends to which people were forming active, violent militias were different, but when massive groups of people are taking up arms, a society has chosen the path of violence. German elites, conservatives, and moderates actively chose to let the Nazis take power, because it seemed superior to the alternative at the time.

[Dewie]

The Jews etc. were the scapegoats of Germany, and the party and their leader rose to power because Germany was the scapegoat of WW1 (justly or not). I don't imagine that Hitler and his party would actually have gotten such a foothold if it wasn't for the fact that the German people were resentful for being under everyone's heel, and that Hitler's leadership brought Germany out of a slump in the 30's.

No? My knowledge of history is rusty.

[brazzy]

I believe the main reason for the failure of the Weimar Republic was that most people actually didn't want a democracy. Right-leaning people saw it as a decadent and weak form of government and wanted the monarchy back, and left-leaning ones were split between a dozen different brands of communism or anarchism.

And of course it didn't help that previous military leaders had been worthless cowards who continued a losing war to a point where they could not longer sue for peace, then leave it to the newly formed democratic government to accept the onerous conditions imposed by the opponents and end up getting blamed for something they had neither caused not any choice in.

[gdy]

>justly or not

German started WW1, btw