BaruchCorrect, but deliberate propaganda ...Wed May 16, 2012 18:4267.66.95.133the intent was to immediately turn around W Germany, as a bulwark against Stalin and as the center-piece of NATO. So the non-Nazi Germans were immediately counted as "good" Germans ... and basically they ended up following General Patton's policies as soon as he was out of the way. Probably a good thing as the Berlin Air Lift would have ended with a bang instead of the wimper, if Patton had still been around. Much of the opposition to Patton was because he was a Republican ... it was OK for a Democrat to embrace pro-German policy, but not for a Republican to do so, at least until that German-American Eisenhower came to the White House. Of course President Truman was also German-American. This is radically different than the plan of the Fall of 1944, where it was proposed to keep Germany at the pre-industrial level to keep them from continuing to periodically bother the rest of the world. So yes, almost all the Germans were good Germans, and almost all the Nazis were actually no different than Republicans ... only a very few Nazis were the real problem ... sure they were! And given the return to grace of the Catholic Church, with suppression of Fascist regimes not pressed in Spain, Portugal or Argentina (late 40s to 70s), once Il Duce was eliminated (he was the main connection, Hitler was considered a loose cannon), what could we do but turn a blind eye to former Nazis and other Facists, as long as the played for the NATO side, including anti-Stalinist forces still in civil war against Stalin in the W Ukraine in the late 40s, all being aided by the CIA (Wild Bill Donovan being an Irish-American Catholic of course). The revelatory CIA books of the 70s made clear just how Catholic the CIA continued to be into the 70s.
Without backers, Hitler would have only been a raving lunatic. Fact is, many ordinary Germans considered him the second coming of Christ. It was their projections that made him into an all powerful monster, because the Germans themselves wanted to be all powerful Supermen. How can we eliminate Fascism in the West, when the victorious Western powers were themselves Fascist? This is why Democrats are not true Leftists. Funny you mention "having a drink with that funny Austrian with the funny mustache" ... that is how many Americans viewed George W before 2009, but then his grandfather and great-grandfather had been financiers of Fascism, particularly of the German kind.
Shalom
- Correct, but deliberate propaganda ... — Baruch, Wed May 16 18:42
