A Dog's Obeyed In Office

[poliphilo]

Germany was playing Poland last night. It was pretty dull so I took a book about the Third Reich off the shelves and browsed through it while the match played itself out in the background.

Germany won.

Both times.

How easy it is to get people to do really horrible things! The Third Reich wasn't just Hitler and a few of his mates, it was tens of millions of people doing as they were told- even when the things they were told to do were bad and stupid. Hitler was a twit (just look at him!) Goebbels was a twit (and a squit) Himmler (with his weak eyes and receding chin) was the creepiest thing on two legs- and yet the German people (with very little resistance) happily went along with them and got onto the swing of it  by thinking up vile things to do to Jews, Commies and other undesirables entirely off their own bat.

All the men in a Russian village are rounded up. They stand in the village square in the pouring rain. The Germans hand out newspapers and ask the men to read aloud. If you're literate you get a clerical job, if you're not you get to dig ditches. After the men are sorted into two groups the ones who can read are marched off and shot. Hehehe; we've just neutralised the fucking intellectuals!

I'm not particularly getting at the Germans here. The Third Reich is just the gaudiest example of the herd instinct in the human animal. Dress a retard in tat and have it make  a speech and most of us will salute it. For other examples just glance round the contemporary world.

Comments

[treehavn.livejournal.com]

So true. I'm finding it a bit perplexing when the football commentators remind the audience at home that the last time we played in this or that stadium the English team had to perform the Nazi salute under duress. I can't tell if it's German-baiting or actual historical recapping. The Nazis were just a perfectly horrible reminder of the capacity the human race has to think up hideous new devices of hurting each other.

[glitzfrau.livejournal.com]

On a German late-night chat show the night before the match, the host made the "hilarious" quip that, as all the Poles in Germany would be inside watching the match, for once it would be safe to leave your cars unlocked. Ahahahbloodyha. The World Cup just seems to be a heaven-sent opportunity for populist media to stir up stupid nationalist stereotypes again.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We're British; the Second World War is an obsession with us; it's unreasonable to expect us not to mention it...