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The observation of US production focused on middle class consumers is very insightful and significant, isn't it? It involves so many related matters of the culture, natural resources and property rights that created entrepreneurship and a middle class large enough to be an appealing market.
In Germany, there is a consensus, that they were really on the right way to the modern usage of fusion-power, but seemingly not on the way to nuclear-bombs. The german nuclear-bomb seems to be more or less a "myth". And they were far away from effective usage. Maybe, there were development in the way of fuel-cells. But, the whole development was in an really early phase.
Did anyone check some of the links posted yesterday to see the gun that shoots around corners? Laugh out loud. Who knew Wile E. Coyote had a real wonder weapon from Acme!
That may or may not be a Jewish name but I have a CD of a German folk music group with the name of Goldberg.Hi Tom, this is a really interesting thread! My primary concern is Imperial Japan's inhumanity and madness (and maybe the evidence to support the idea that Imperial Japan was one giant death cult on a holy war, could be thrown up in a thread for discussion some time), but yeah, the Nazi's.
In the course of my research on the Japanese some years back, I read something really interesting about the nazis. This one academic (can't recall his name) posited that the nazi leadership were just a bunch of thugs- socially insecure people overcompensating, and built a system made up of equally insecure mediocrity. The end result was the 'banality of evil' situation where nobody really question what they were being told to do, evil became beaucrotized.
So, this guy's thesis was that whilst the Nazi's did have access to clever scientists they could push into advanced projects, and whilst the nazis did have a romanticism for the occult, these things have been overplayed, exaggerated, and made into modern myths because the fact is that postwar generations are struggling to understand how such mediocre and ordinary people (just like people anywhere!) could do such unspeakable crimes against humanity.
We 'want' to believe that there was more to it bacause it helps us think that the nazis weren't ordinary people (kind of like us).
It's an interesting proposition.
Personally, 'an SS General, Jakob Sporrenberg', stop me if I'm wrong, but that's a very Jewish name for a member of the SS, isn't it?
they, Hitler in particular, wanted to enlarge Germany. Britain, France and even the United States had their colonies.
Personally, 'an SS General, Jakob Sporrenberg', stop me if I'm wrong, but that's a very Jewish name for a member of the SS, isn't it?