bilby
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No maxparrish. That was provocateurs taking advantage of fear rather than reality. It wasn't the immigrants at all. It was just plain fear promoted for this reason or that to gain leverage for this arm or that. And, yes, Nazis were the ones evoking ethnic fear for their advantage. People were depressed by the failure of their previous leadership and the conditions of the armistice which raped much of German wealth and infrastructure. So this and that were those. The templates provided by the Nazis were for cleansing and blame on the more or less innocent minorities. Rational options were available except the extremists sabotaged them with Putsches and assassinations. Never repeat Nazis were just given control. They weren't. They stole it.
Your objection is not germane. Bilby suggested that "that the situation today is almost a perfect parallel to the situation then - with the significant difference that the German supporters of National Socialism had the excuse of not having seen where this attitude leads?".
Quite aside from the fact that there is not a parallel to the situation then, there is no evidence that opposition to immigration "leads" to the policies espoused by the Nazis. Those Germans taking the streets to protest Merkel's sacrifice of Germans to the benefit of foreign hordes are not in favor of concentration camps, but in keeping the waves of 3rd world Muslims from squatting in German territory.
One looks forward to the day Germans regain their spine, and defend their own borders.
The Germans who voted for the NSADP were not in favour of concentration camps either. They were merely unconcerned about them - in the beginning, because they seemed an unlikely outcome of voting for Herr Hitler's party; and later because they were for sub-humans and traitors, and Good Germans had nothing to fear from them.
And that's exactly the reason why it's important to be on guard. The Nazis didn't turn up and say "We will establish a totalitarian state with concentration and extermination camps"; they said "We will get rid of these others, who are stealing your jobs and dragging down our nation, and we will make you once again proud to be a citizen of the most civilised nation on Earth!"
In short, they said all the same reassuring and ennobling things that you are saying, about how with strong leadership that would stand up to the threat posed by non-citizens, everyone can become happy and prosperous. It was a lie then; it remains a lie today. But it's no less attractive to those who believe the bullshit than it ever was.