Member: alliwantedwasapepsi

Well, to make a long story short, members of my family were in the Nazi party (believe me, so not proud of that...they are all dead now). So, I have spent the last 10 years of my life reading everything I can get my hands on to try to figure out what would make them so mindlessly fall for the crap that Hitler brainwashed them with. Turns out, it is so much more complicated than simple brainwashing and mindless citizens. Don't get me wrong, I in no way sympathize with them, and in my opinion, they belong right where they are now (which I can assure you is not Heaven - they all held the National Socialist mentality until the day they died in thier advanced years). It just turns out that Hitler was in the right place, at the right time in history, proposing the right things that Germany needed to hear at that particular year...and the chaos only spirals down from there.

The reason several books on my shelf in that genre are more or less "careers" for me, is that the reading can be so dull, factual, political and intense all at the same time, that I can't read a whole lot at one time,have to put it down, read something else for a while, then pick it up again. I have been reading The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich for 3 years now! It took me about 4 years to get through Adolph Hitler by Jon Toland! (it is a two volume set)

Oh, ST will always have a special place in my heart! I pull the old cd's out every once in a while, but boy, I was so into them when they first came out (it was so different), and stayed with them for many years.

I wonder what they are up to these days!

Lisa

posted by kimfdim at 8:56 pm (EST) on Oct 22, 2008

alliwantedwasapepsi...this has to come from ST, doesn't it. Not too many people know about that!

posted by kimfdim at 9:11 pm (EST) on Sep 30, 2008