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Old 12-28-2006, 01:50 PM   #11 (permalink)
stephencp
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"Hitler formed armies based around fear and hatred, and very few people in his armies were individuals, with a few very sadistic exceptions."

Hitler was a populist and recruited people based on love of the "Fatherland" i.e. Germany. People did not follow Hitler because they hated Jews, they followed Hitler because he promised them a great country (indeed while blaming the Jews for some of the problems). Germany had already recovered from the Treaty of Versailles and was again competing with Europe again well before WWII started (i.e. before the Holocaust.)
With respect to "people in his armies", 99% of German soldiers (outside of the concentration camps) were like most other armies.

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