German Interior Minister Warns Economic Crisis Could Lead To Rise In Nazism!

[Better Believe It]

Daily Mail Online
October 6, 2008

Echo of Hitler Chilling: Wolfgang Schäuble recalled the rise of Hitler when talking about the current global financial crisis
A German minister broke a national taboo on Sunday by comparing the current economic crisis to the conditions which led to the rise of Adolf Hitler.

The Wall Street Crash of 1929 helped turn Germany - already reeling from the First World War --into a destitute nation which was receptive to the Nazi dictator's promise to make it great again.

Interior minister Wolfgang Schauble said: 'Such an economic crisis can result in an incredible threat for all of society.

'The consequences of that depression was Adolf Hitler and, indirectly, World War II and Auschwitz.'

He said that the current crisis could be as devastating as it was 'a historic break that will be recounted later in history books'.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1069374/The-Berlin-bank-bombshell-Germany-makes-100-savings-guarantee--Brown-forced-follow.html

[Selatius]

1. If anything, the US is more vulnerable to fascism than Germany is.

If Hitler had the kind of firepower America had, the world would've been finished.

[beachmom]

2. Sounds like he is a blowhard. What a boneheaded comment.

Germany did hold an emergency meeting today and have now changed the law so that all savings and checking accounts are protected with no ceiling.

[tblue]

3. So should we move to Germany where we and our money are safe?

It's tempting.

[Better Believe It]

7. Do You Know A Lot About How And Why Nazism Took Power In Germany?

I'd be surprised if you know a lot more than the German Interior Minister about German history.

It appears from your comment that you really know little or nothing about the rise of Nazism in Germany or you wouldn't have made such a silly comment.

I urge you to read some serious historical material on how fascism arose in Germany, Italy and Spain.

Get back to me after you've done that.

[malaise]

10. He raised a valid historical point n/t

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. People look to "Strong Leaders" out of fear. America isn't immune.

The frightening thing about this whole economic catastrophe is the possibility that people will follow a demagogue into an authoritarian government that promises "stability".

[CoffeeCat]

5. He should come to the United States....

...and see that the current Fascist neocons came FIRST, and then came the
economic crisis.

Over on this side of the pond, the neocons created devastating economic
conditions in order to more easily implement their beloved PNAC plan.

[southernleftylady]

6. My german mother has been saying the same thing for awhile now about the good 'ol u. s. of a.

[Hardrada]

8. Don't let people despair too much or they might seek

serious political ways to strike back. That is one of the lessons
of history. Our people have no reason to rejoice and almost every reason to
despair with all the jobs and wealth being pissed away by the plutocrats
and their political creatures.

[moondust]

9. Canary in a coal mine.

Germans know too well the dangers of radical politics in an unstable environment.

I find it reassuring that 70 percent of Germans polled favor Obama.

[JackRiddler]

11. Schäuble's done more to move Germany to fascism than anyone...

He's been a total law-and-order fear-mongering moralistic hyper-conservative blowhard expanding police powers in his intermittent role as interior minister in various governments for the last 20 years. We'll give him half a pass for having been crippled in an assassination attempt around 1990 or so (blamed on the RAF). Otherwise, he has three notes: Germany will shortly be Islamized by the rising tide of terror jihad immigrants; the greatest threat Germany faces is the extremism of the terrorist left; and, every third year, the coming reemergence of the Nazis because of a decay in social order. There is no need to take this article any more seriously than you would if it were signed by William Kristol.

[Better Believe It]

12. How?

Fascism regimes and undemocratic regimes or governments that restrict political rights and freedoms are not necessarily the same thing.

Fascist regimes come to power in different way and organize mass violent movements numbering the millions that take direct action to destroy all progressive groups including mass organizations such a labor unions.

Does something like that exist in Germany today and is Schaubles a leader of such a mass movement or is the word fascist just being used loosely as sort of a curse word?

[JackRiddler]

13. Fine then...

I didn't say he's an ideological fascist. In response to his bogus warning about fascism, I said he himself moved the country in a fascist direction with police state measures. The point is his fear-mongering hypocrisy, when he suddenly warns about the imminent revival of Nazism. It's bullshit. He's saying it to advocate for more police measures, which he does constantly.

Nazis exist in Germany today, as they always have. They are not a mass movement, but they are a menace to innocent people on the street.