• 9point6@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    There’s a few of these

    I think the biggest one for me is quite how much support Hitler apparently had in the Anglosphere before the wars.

    Assuming he managed to grow that support without war, I have a feeling we would have potentially had a very fascist 50s across the world instead of the era of progressive politics we actually got. Then whatever inevitable revolution or nuclear winter that followed a couple of decades later, would leave the world looking very different to today.

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        6 months ago

        He would not have managed to get any support if it wasn’t for the hate and scapegoating, he’d be some unknown good guy.

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          6 months ago

          That simply isn’t true, contemporary sources make it clear that he had charisma to spare. The Weimar Republic was ripe for a radical populist movement due to a number of reasons, but that means a less hateful ideology could have succeeded as well. The period balanced on a political knife edge, and who knows what would have happened if he’d been a true believer in something actually helpful?