Nope. None of this is correct.

Martin Luther was a national hero in Germany, and Hitler was Catholic. The state did not interfere with the church because Christian religious expression was seen as part of the German identity.

You could own a house and a car. Germans were encouraged to save money to buy (get it? buy!) a Volkswagen. You could also own a business, or a bank account, or change jobs. While the State was the biggest actor in the economy, the State is the biggest actor in OUR economy too. It's always the biggest actor.

What you could not do was speak, act or protest against the State. This is horrible. This is also true in communist countries. So let's look at Communism real quick.

No massive starvation in Germany like in the USSR. In fact, Germany became a massive power after 15 years of a great depression and having territory taken away after WW1. Could socialism have done this? Of course not. The USSR, despite having all the natural resources you can imagine, imported food from the West.

I know we like to romanticize our past. But the result of World War 2 was to open a lane for the expansion of Communism, and now it's in our country. Was it designed as such? No one knows. But, hyper-progressive President during the war...maybe it was. Maybe the post-war nationalism was like the period after 9/11, a nation united....and faded away, giving way to Communist bullshit which opened our borders in 1965, infected our schools and media soon after, and we see the results now.

Nope. None of this is correct.

Martin Luther was a national hero in Germany, and Hitler was Catholic. The state did not interfere with the church because Christian religious expression was seen as part of the German identity.

You could own a house and a car. Germans were encouraged to save money to buy (get it? buy!) a Volkswagen. You could also own a business, or a bank account, or change jobs. While the State was the biggest actor in the economy, the State is the biggest actor in OUR economy too. It's always the biggest actor.

What you could not do was speak, act or protest against the State. This is horrible. This is also true in communist countries. So let's look at Communism real quick.

No massive starvation in Germany like in the USSR. In fact, Germany became a massive power after 15 years of a great depression and having territory taken away after WW1. Could socialism have done this? Of course not. The USSR, despite having all the natural resources you can imagine, imported food from the West.

I know we like to romanticize our past. But the result of World War 2 was to open a lane for the expansion of Communism, and now it's in our country. Was it designed as such? No one knows. But, hyper-progressive President during the war...maybe it was. Maybe the post-war nationalism was like the period after 9/11, a nation united....and faded away, giving way to Communist bullshit which opened our borders in 1965 and we see the results now.

Nope. None of this is correct.

Martin Luther was a national hero in Germany, and Hitler was Catholic. The state did not interfere with the church because Christian religious expression was seen as part of the German identity.

You could own a house and a car. Germans were encouraged to save money to buy (get it? buy!) a Volkswagen. You could also own a business, or a bank account, or change jobs. While the State was the biggest actor in the economy, the State is the biggest actor in OUR economy too. It's always the biggest actor.

What you could not do was speak, act or protest against the State. This is horrible. This is also true in communist countries. So let's look at Communism real quick.

No massive starvation in Germany like in the USSR. In fact, Germany became a massive power after 15 years of a great depression and having territory taken away after WW1. Could socialism have done this? Of course not. The USSR, despite having all the natural resources you can imagine, imported food from the West.

I know we like to romanticize our past. But the result of World War 2 was to open a lane for the expansion of Communism, and now it's in our country.