Were they blinded by patriotism and innundated by lies and propaganda?  Did they know all the evils of their government?
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Well, you have to realize that after WWI, Germany was plunged into a deep depression. Both economy and morale were virtually nonexistent, and they were deeply humiliated by their loss. But then along came Hitler, who was, by all accounts, an excellent politician. He was a magnanimous speaker who told the German people exactly what they wanted to hear. He raised both morale using a sense of nationalism, and the economy, using the "common man" (I think he focused mostly on farmers). Even the anti-semitism made sense at the time; they felt like they needed SOMEONE to blame for all their hardship, and Hitler gave them one. It was in this fashion that he managed to seize power; Germany was putty at his feet. There were obviously a select few who did find something wrong with the regime, but these were exceptions, rather than the rule. \n\nPoint is, Hitler knew what the hell he was doing. He was brilliant, plain and simple. Of course, he was also very wrong in the head. He had skewed ideals regarding other races, he wildly misinterpreted Nietzsche (although to be fair, just about everyone does), and his intentions were nothing short of evil. But he was brilliant. Taking all these factors into account, it kind of makes you wonder how anyone in Germany COULD think their government was wrong.
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In the world community? Not really, and it is hard not to blame them. Lets face facts, the last time a large country basically took over a smaller country based on propaganda lies was Germany in 1938 when they invaded Poland. Anybody want to debate whether Germany was the Bad guy then? Well, the world sees us as the bad guy now and they are not wrong. The truly sad thing is that troops are not the bad guys, the Bush Administration is. But it is the innocent that always does the dying and the Bush guys just keep on lying.
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They think whatever their governments and media has told them to think.  They think that all Americans blindly follow thier leader, and that American leaders are the only ones that lie to their people. They ignorantly think all of us are rich and that everything comes easily for all of us.
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Some of them...\n\nBut Americans are being brainwashed, as Mr Nice Guy said. They tend to believe everything the media tells them, without questioning, not realizing that the media isnt really free, its controlled by the government. So much for free speech...
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Oil, delusions of grandure, and an experiment to see where are the limits of authoritarian power can be projected at home and abroad. \nYou can supress civil liberties easily if there was a war on.\nWe have people, unqualified, of limited vision, poisened by greed in charge of things.  I guess these people wanted to see them selves glorified in equestrian statues.
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They are terrorists.  It was a mistake to supply them with such.  hindsight is always 20/20 but for some cases it appears to be 0/20.
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Well said. Republicans had their chance and blew it. Greed and political expediency overcame good government. Now they lost credibility with not only the entire world, but with voters as well.  Funny and scary thing is that they still dont understand that what they were doing was wrong.
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Love your country, distrust your government.  "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety," Benjamin Franklin.  The US Patriot Act is very very unpatriotic.  It literally strips away your Constitutional Rights.  Hitler burned the Reichstag building when he became Chancelor.  Then blamed it on Poland.  The Bush Administration caused 911 to happen and then they blamed Afganistan and Iraq.  The media is completely saturated with propaganda.  Currently, the United States is run by a military industrial complex and most Americans are blind to that.  Many people say you shouldn't believe what you read on the internet, but it's the internet that has complete and total freedom to communicate the truth and what's really going on.  All other media is controlled and propagated.  Do the research.  Find the truth.  We must take our county back from these treasonous "leaders."
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Of course they do. They look at CNN and TNT and NYT and see all the caterwauling craven appeasers, and look at all the Democratics who visit bloody tyrant butchers and suck up to them, and get the impression that America is full of cowardly treasonous dolts.\n\nThen they are shocked when they get their butts whupped by very hard men who believe in duty, honor and country, and who aren't impressed with the 'manliness' of murdering helpless captives.
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They were written to control the gullible.
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well, hitler was the hero of his time (so people thought) he tricked and lied about what was gonna happen to the jewish people. it's very sad, but then, people didnt know better.
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I don`t know the exact words. But they went overseas and bad mouthed our government.. And Most folks probably felt the same, BUT, you should NEVER badmouth your country, outside of your country.. WE can talk bad about US all we want to.. But not overseas.. It feels kinda like treason.. Ya know?? Now I do want to let you know, I did not hear them or even what they said. But this is the way I get it.. Maybe some of these nice Yahoo folks will tell us more.. \n\n\nOH, and let`s nip this Texas thing in the bud.. He is from Connecticut.. Born there in 1946.. So don`t blame us... \n\n<><
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Some likely came to their senses. Others are unprincipled bandwagon jumpers who go where the political wind blows. And the remainder are currently residing in mental institutions, incarcerated or now deceased.\n\nThe sensible ones are doubtless angry and disappointed about all the lies and scandals (some only just now coming to light; others as yet unrevealed). Aside from the dread true believers, no one could possibly view this despicable president and his criminally corrupt administration as anything but an abject failure.\n\nThis hateful man and his ignominious presidency will be reviled in history books until the end of time. We have never had a worse president and can only hope we will never see such as this ever again.\n\nP.S. How twisted is it that just over 1/3 of the electorate actually still APPROVE of this monkey and his immoral policies? Scotty, beam me aboard.
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Their leader told them that they had wepons of mass destruction.
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I always wondered that to.  Why did the Germans hate them so much?
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Through war and such. They were imperialistic, took over other civilizations and people joined gladly sometimes because they would offer citizenship if they were good people, and gave them chances for government.
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It is possible they have unintentionally. But DELIBERATE acts of betrayal are always committed by individuals ... and the government eventually catches them and deals very harshly with them.\n\nDon't believe the media and Hollywood in thinking that intelligence agencies get wild hairs up their butts and decide to run the country. They have very strict oversight - to the point that Congress actually interferes with them actually doing their job.\n\nFor the most part, they are filled with people who love their country and do the utmost to achieve its goals.