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To: Taro who wrote (230620)	4/25/2005 10:17:10 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572505

Re: Far from considering Nazism oppressive, most Germans thought of it as warm-hearted, asserts Goetz Aly. Hitler famously quipped, "it's a blessing for the leaders that the people do not think." It was quite an intelligent observation of the nature of the people. The German people clearly approved of and admired Hitler in the late 1930s, since he manipulated and then catered to their desires. One of the more bizarre situations in that era was the Gulag in the Soviet Union. I've heard that many people who were imprisoned in the gulags actually wrote to their "Father" Joe Stalin to ask his intercession in their imprisonment. Remarkably, thousands of people never understood that it was Stalin who was responsible for their incarceration, and they maintained an admiration for Stalin until their demise. I feel that much the same sort of psychological malaise is occurring in America today. Far too many people see the problems that they face in their own lives, and find that they are struggling more and more each month with increasingly expensive fuel, health, housing and food costs yet they love George Bush and completely fail to comprehend that many of Bush's policies are actually very hurtful of Americans in general. I've heard loyal Republicans on honest call-in shows like C-SPAN's Washington Journal state how much they hate Bush's policies, while they remain completely loyal to their Party and their leader. It's really a pathetic spectacle of human weakness.

To: Taro who wrote (230620)	4/25/2005 3:55:32 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572505

Sound familiar? One-person rule or self-rule over democracy. "The young [Nazi] movement is in its nature and inner organization anti-parliamentarian; that is, it rejects… a principle of majority rule in which the leader is degraded to the level of mere executant of other people's wills and opinion." (25) "The [Nazi party] should not become a constable of public opinion, but must dominate it. It must not become a servant of the masses, but their master!" (26) "By rejecting the authority of the individual and replacing it by the numbers of some momentary mob, the parliamentary principle of majority rule sins against the basic aristocratic principle of Nature…" (27) "For there is one thing we must never forget… the majority can never replace the man. And no more than a hundred empty heads make one wise man will an heroic decision arise from a hundred cowards." (28) "There must be no majority decisions, but only responsible persons, and the word 'council' must be restored to its original meaning. Surely every man will have advisers by his side, but the decision will be made by one man." (29) <snip> "The Western democracy of today is the forerunner of Marxism…" (31) "Only a knowledge of the Jews provides the key with which to comprehend the inner, and consequently real, aims of Social Democracy." (32) <http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-hitler.htm