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September 13, 2008 - 4:02 pm - by Richard Fernandez
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2008-09-14 08:38:06

He has some resemblance to a young Austrian from Linz who was a failed artist and wannabe architect. Adoph tried some “community organizing” in Vienna before WW1. Then he managed the bureaucratic problems to become a citizen of the Reich. He could never keep a job and his initial political career after the War was sponsored by a secret Reichwehr unit commanded by Major Meyer (who later was killed by the Nazis).
Adolph was abused by his father and protected by his mother. But he was not abandoned as the One was.
Adolph when in power lived a spartan life as compared with Goering and other party leaders.
Historical revisionists of various sorts paint the German people as robot followers. The reality was much more complicated. There was a LOT of local democratic politics in Kaiser’s Germany.
It is amazingly scary that a low class Austrian Catholic from Linz ended up as the Chancellor of Germany. It is amazing that a strange man from Honolulu may become the President of the US.