Hitler was a socialist!

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

CAn I just ask what the big deal is with Hitler? Why do Americans have such an infatuation with him? You talk about any gov't policy or history and I guarrantee you the 10th word out of everyone's mouth is "Hitler" or "Nazi" or "Fascist". Hitler would rank in the middle when discussing brutal dictators. Genghis Khan, Stalin, Mao, and others undoubtly killed far more people. More people died in Communist regimes then under Nazi ones. We faught the Japs and the Italians at the same time, yet nobody ever remembers Tojo, Hirohito, or Mussolini. It's Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, and of course lets not forget Hitler. He was not the first or last dictator to go after Jews Tsar Nicholas before and Stalin afterwards both singled out that group, as did many other tyrants going far back to ancient history. Hitler did lead the enemy in the most deadly war ever but again he wasn't alone in that either. Still there is no reason to single out Hitler and forget the numerous other brutal tyrannts that have for thousands of years targeted, tortured, and menaced there own people.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Hitler was not a socialist. I remember making this stupid arguement once myself before I read up on economic schools. The Germans had an economic philosphy of economic Nationalism dating back to the early years in Prussia. Bismarck used it to unite the economy and create one of the top three economies often competing with Britain for second place in the late 1800's and early 1900's and was beat out only by the USA( Yet I can't seem to replicate this is in Victoria:Revolutions at all, I can never keep up with the Germans, but thats for a different thread). The Germans have also had a long record of social policies like ending child labour and creating entitlements in the mid 1800's long before any other economy did that. Hitler merely took advantage of this tradition.

 Its ironic but some of the same Germanic economic policies were transported and incorporated into US economic policy. The arguement for Tarriffs in the late in 1800's was driven by immigrant German economists as American Businesses began to see benefit in free trade after being the biggest proponents of Protectionism. This was echoed by statements made by President McKinley at the Exihibition right before his assissination.

Hitler wasn't a Socialist.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

We faught the Japs

I'd suggest you not use that particular word. It's not 1943.

There are worse words that can be used to describe them but I won't cause I like the Japanese.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

We faught the Japs

I'd suggest you not use that particular word. It's not 1943.

There are worse words that can be used to describe them but I won't cause I like the Japanese.

I believe the correct term is "Tojos"

Japs was actually the most common amongst the troops at least from what I have seen and read. At home we were at lot lest Politically Correct and so The four letter word beginnning with N was used to describe them.