I came across this and thought it would be of some interest. HC
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh7v0DU9UWA
VIDEO The REAL reason Hitler killed Ernst Röhm in the Night of the Long Knives - TIKhistory
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parsonswife
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TY!
Yeah, I stumbled across this video and was impressed with the quality of content and presentation. I just had to share it. Worry not, there's a lot more content with a lighter weight available at that source.
Dobbin
Faithful Steed
THiS particularly.
A revolution is more assured of outcome IF the humans being revolted against are not aware of the against.
Thus Marxism uses your own foibles and failures against you.
"You must be (insert unfair characterization here.)"
Ayn Rand paraphrased it well.
Dobbin
Dobbin
Faithful Steed
It's interesting the speaker curiously and quite pointedly "critiques" other historians and sources, including at least one who references Wikipedia in his positional support.Yeah, I stumbled across this video and was impressed with the quality of content and presentation. I just had to share it. Worry not, there's a lot more content with a lighter weight available at that source.
Dobbin
Haybails
When In Doubt, Throttle Out!
Lee2
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I have a problem with the speaker's assertion that only 85 were killed during the night of the long knives mostly because Hitler and his cronies never did anything in small numbers. Think of all the people they put to death - always on a grand scale. So I believe more lost their lives that night - and the ones arrested and sent to concentration camps were probably dispatched pretty quickly. As for the ones who were left - how much you want to bet they were watched very carefully and many of them were killed or arrested if they set a toe out of line.
But I totally agree with all else he says about Hitler not being a capitalist and being Socialist - well, I believe, a downright commie - leftist to the extreme. After reading the book Night of the Long Knives years ago, I realized Hitler got rid of Rohm because he was competition and a direct threat to Hitler's leadership. This video just solidifies that. Hitler always put himself and his Reich first.
But I had to laugh at the speaker saying he had so many more sources than these written works. Is it a numbers game?? There is a lot about Nazism, WWII, and the aftermath we will never know and a lot of lies that have been told, I'm sure.
But I totally agree with all else he says about Hitler not being a capitalist and being Socialist - well, I believe, a downright commie - leftist to the extreme. After reading the book Night of the Long Knives years ago, I realized Hitler got rid of Rohm because he was competition and a direct threat to Hitler's leadership. This video just solidifies that. Hitler always put himself and his Reich first.
But I had to laugh at the speaker saying he had so many more sources than these written works. Is it a numbers game?? There is a lot about Nazism, WWII, and the aftermath we will never know and a lot of lies that have been told, I'm sure.
155 arty
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Was at least a rumor that Rohm was a fag
Hfcomms
EN66iq
No rumor. Rohm was a flamer and Hitler caught him in bed with another man when they raided the Bad Wiessee hostel.
And one thing that has always burned me about revisionist history is they call the Nazi's a right wing political movement. Nothing could be further from the truth. After all they were the National Socialist German Worker's party. Last time I checked socialism was left wing.
Dobbin
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I don't recall that the speaker assigned any ill will from Hitler to Rohm's flame on. More the different approach to imposing a dictatorship.
Hitler WAS a creature of the mind. And he knew who were his "friends" and who was a threat. Only later as the NAZI state coalesced did Rohm become a true threat.
Dobbin
The National Socialist movement had strong ties to industry, e.g. Krupp.