When you look at old footage of the Nazis, even from the mid 1920's, you see a lot of militarism and great respect for Hitler even though he was still in his early days. So much so that they attempted the Beer Hall Putsch behind him and took him on as leader again.
With any video you watch, you see the brownshirts implicitly understand that he is their leader and to not detriment the movement by undermining him.
Was this due to a lot of them being ex-soldiers during WWI? Why are people unable to understand that implicit worship/support today? Is it due to a rise in individualism?
>>3368190
The regimentation of army life was certainly a factor behind the effectiveness of the SA, although most Nazi leaders (excluding Hitler, Goring, and Rohm) were actually too young or physically infirm to see active service in WW1 and that was a driving force behind their adoption of radical politics.
Also,
>dat pic
Imagine how different history might have been if someone had thrown a bomb through the window at that very moment...
Heh, nothing personal Adolf
t. Röhm
because they were disenchanted war veterans who had to use wheelbarrows of money to get bread to feed their kids, not fedoras bitter that they can't get laid
>>3368207
>not fedoras bitter that they can't get laid
That kind was the case with Goebbels and Hitler
>>3368207
>because they were disenchanted war veterans
Isnt that how Starship troopers Federation is founded?
>>3368190
What surprises people isn't so much that ex-soldiers followed the party in a militaristic manner, it's that so many people supported an obviously evil movement.
But if you read a lot about history, then even that ceases to be surprising.
I'm pretty sure it's genetic.
Humans are social creatures, and the ones who were able to implicitly organize under a competent leader (this is where the Nazis fucked up) were the one's who were the most fit. Overtime, natural selection allows this to become instinctual. Also this isn't just limited to humans, look at wolves, nearly all pack animals have a "leader"
>>3368279
>Also this isn't just limited to humans, look at wolves, nearly all pack animals have a "leader"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNtFgdwTsbU
>>3368274
What exactly was apparently evil about the early National Socialist movement?
>>3368190
>Was this due to a lot of them being ex-soldiers during WWI? Why are people unable to understand that implicit worship/support today? Is it due to a rise in individualism?
It was a fetish. WWI traumatized German men, turning them into sub slave sissies. Hitler was the perfect guy to fit the role: a father that is weaker than you.
They could have raped him, he was a very weak man, but they didn't and instead they took absolute orders from him, even when said orders were ridicolous (everyone knew that Hitler's theories were uncoherent, that he was a shitty philosopher and even a worse general and statist): that's the Nazi kink.
>>3368437
Thanks for that insight Freud.
>>3368190
>second from the far left
Is that Rosenberg looking suave as fuck?