Not exactly. I tried to read Mein Kampf once. Didn't finish because it read like a low quality racist 14 year old's blog.
The drugs screwed him up worse, but even before the drugs, he was never as brilliant as he thought he was.
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by -SARS- » Thu May 27, 2021 9:09 am
by Kanadorika » Thu May 27, 2021 10:17 am
-SARS- wrote:Albrenia wrote:
Is it correct that he was quite intelligent around the start of the war, but getting addicted to various drugs eroded his senses until such grand delusions took hold?
Not exactly. I tried to read Mein Kampf once. Didn't finish because it read like a low quality racist 14 year old's blog.
The drugs screwed him up worse, but even before the drugs, he was never as brilliant as he thought he was.
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by Page » Thu May 27, 2021 10:22 am
Kanadorika wrote:-SARS- wrote:
Not exactly. I tried to read Mein Kampf once. Didn't finish because it read like a low quality racist 14 year old's blog.
The drugs screwed him up worse, but even before the drugs, he was never as brilliant as he thought he was.
There absolutely were some rather terrifyingly intelligent people in the Nazi government. Speer comes to mind, but Hitler wasn't one of them.
by Ifreann » Thu May 27, 2021 10:26 am
Page wrote:Kanadorika wrote:There absolutely were some rather terrifyingly intelligent people in the Nazi government. Speer comes to mind, but Hitler wasn't one of them.
Had the Nazis been flexible enough on their fanatical antisemitism to accommodate all the brilliant Jewish scientists who had to flee Germany, they might have ended up getting the bomb first.
by -The-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics » Thu May 27, 2021 10:28 am
by Unstoppable Empire of Doom » Thu May 27, 2021 10:56 am
Kanadorika wrote:-SARS- wrote:
Not exactly. I tried to read Mein Kampf once. Didn't finish because it read like a low quality racist 14 year old's blog.
The drugs screwed him up worse, but even before the drugs, he was never as brilliant as he thought he was.
There absolutely were some rather terrifyingly intelligent people in the Nazi government. Speer comes to mind, but Hitler wasn't one of them.
by The Huskar Social Union » Thu May 27, 2021 10:57 am
Unstoppable Empire of Doom wrote:Kanadorika wrote:There absolutely were some rather terrifyingly intelligent people in the Nazi government. Speer comes to mind, but Hitler wasn't one of them.
Schacht (the minister of economy) I always had respect for. He dug Germany out of an economic depression, paid off war reparations, and funded one of the fastest military buildups in history. Mostly by using mefo bills. He ended up dead in a concentration camp for opposing the war iirc.
For every Galland there was a Goring. For every Doenitz there was a Raeder. For every Scheer there was a Hitler.
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by Ifreann » Thu May 27, 2021 11:00 am
Unstoppable Empire of Doom wrote:Kanadorika wrote:There absolutely were some rather terrifyingly intelligent people in the Nazi government. Speer comes to mind, but Hitler wasn't one of them.
Schacht (the minister of economy) I always had respect for. He dug Germany out of an economic depression, paid off war reparations, and funded one of the fastest military buildups in history. Mostly by using mefo bills. He ended up dead in a concentration camp for opposing the war iirc.
For every Galland there was a Goring. For every Doenitz there was a Raeder. For every Scheer there was a Hitler.
by Punished UMN » Thu May 27, 2021 11:04 am
Unstoppable Empire of Doom wrote:Kanadorika wrote:There absolutely were some rather terrifyingly intelligent people in the Nazi government. Speer comes to mind, but Hitler wasn't one of them.
Schacht (the minister of economy) I always had respect for. He dug Germany out of an economic depression, paid off war reparations, and funded one of the fastest military buildups in history. Mostly by using mefo bills. He ended up dead in a concentration camp for opposing the war iirc.
For every Galland there was a Goring. For every Doenitz there was a Raeder. For every Scheer there was a Hitler.
by Ethel mermania » Thu May 27, 2021 11:12 am
Unstoppable Empire of Doom wrote:Kanadorika wrote:There absolutely were some rather terrifyingly intelligent people in the Nazi government. Speer comes to mind, but Hitler wasn't one of them.
Schacht (the minister of economy) I always had respect for. He dug Germany out of an economic depression, paid off war reparations, and funded one of the fastest military buildups in history. Mostly by using mefo bills. He ended up dead in a concentration camp for opposing the war iirc.
For every Galland there was a Goring. For every Doenitz there was a Raeder. For every Scheer there was a Hitler.
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Bear Stearns wrote:It was never really an alliance. More of a cold "mind your business" agreement.
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by Risottia » Thu May 27, 2021 11:58 pm
Tsaivao wrote:The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was merely an article of convenience. The Soviets realized that they were not going to be very well-prepared for a war (
by Dolmestan » Fri May 28, 2021 12:06 am
by The Blaatschapen » Fri May 28, 2021 3:19 am
Unstoppable Empire of Doom wrote:Kanadorika wrote:There absolutely were some rather terrifyingly intelligent people in the Nazi government. Speer comes to mind, but Hitler wasn't one of them.
Schacht (the minister of economy) I always had respect for. He dug Germany out of an economic depression, paid off war reparations, and funded one of the fastest military buildups in history. Mostly by using mefo bills. He ended up dead in a concentration camp for opposing the war iirc.
For every Galland there was a Goring. For every Doenitz there was a Raeder. For every Scheer there was a Hitler.
The final payment was made on 3 October 2010, settling German loan debts in regard to reparations.
by The Blaatschapen » Fri May 28, 2021 4:12 am
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by Infected Mushroom » Fri May 28, 2021 4:17 am
Dolmestan wrote:I think it was just a truce in both party's eyes. Neither side felt they were ready to fight the other side and were not willing to take a risk. Both sides saw each other as too much of a threat to maintain this pact and if Hitler hadn't broken it, Stalin would have, maybe later but it would have happened.
by The Huskar Social Union » Fri May 28, 2021 4:19 am
Infected Mushroom wrote:Dolmestan wrote:I think it was just a truce in both party's eyes. Neither side felt they were ready to fight the other side and were not willing to take a risk. Both sides saw each other as too much of a threat to maintain this pact and if Hitler hadn't broken it, Stalin would have, maybe later but it would have happened.
There was no expiration date on the signed paper though.
by Imperial Rifta » Fri May 28, 2021 4:27 am
Picairn wrote:Nazi Germany betraying the Soviet Union was an inevitability. Hitler viewed Communism as an existential threat and Stalin knew this. His hope was to delay the war until 1942, which didn't work out so well.
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