The world never learns…is what I am concluding because on this day a century ago, Hitler and 2000 of his Nazi goons tried to overthrow Munich’s government. They reasoned if this succeeded, then a popular uprising against the Weimar Republic in Berlin would begin and they’d lead it. Thankfully the cops did their job unlike the ones in Amerika. Only 16 assholes were killed (a pity), four cops and a bystander. Hitler, being the coward he always was, fled from the scene yet they caught him a couple days later.
Unlike the January 6th debacle, the Germany government tried Hitler and his gangsters in early 1924. Then the disaster that would end in millions of deaths worldwide was put into motion.
- A sympathetic judge was put in charge of the trial (see later).
- Until the putsch, the Nazis weren’t well known outside and inside Germany. The failure became a PR success, especially with the martyr crap for the dumb 16.
- Hitler did speak on the stand but cleverly omitted his hatred for Jews and other extreme views. He put on an act about his concern “for the people.”
He was sentenced to serve five years in what we Americans would call a minimum security prison, maybe a half-way house. Hell, given how ridiculously lenient it was, I think he got sent to a resort. It was a huge mistake too. No forced labor. Comfortable cells. Almost no restrictions on visitors. On the latter, without this, please tell me how exactly was Hitler being punished? Tricky Dick’s people got worse and many feel their sentences were a joke!
Most of us know the aftermath from Hitler’s incarceration. He used this time to co-write the Nazi screed Mein Kampf. He usually gets the sole credit but Emil Maurice and Rudolf Hess contributed.
Then came the insult to injury. Hitler was released after only serving eight to nine months because he was “well behaved.” Prison officials disagreed as some said they wished deaf guards watched him due to his evil oratory skills. My History TA in college said, even if you don’t speak German, Hitler could get many fired up. I’m not sure. I think Bugs Bunny and the Three Stooges inoculated me enough to see him as rather cartoonish, not a person I’d follow.
Sadly, Hitler learned his lesson to play it cool in order to trick the mainstream Germans, or what I call the “undecided” or “independent” voters in Amerika. To me, they’re voters who just don’t want to say they’re selfish, racist Republicans out loud. They love to change the subject to the economy or how it’s too expensive to prevent the Mad Max world we’re headed for in polite conversation; still gives away their racism.
My point though is how all the players in Amerikan politics are repeating the same soap opera from 90-100 years ago via Weimar Republic 2. Girth Vader is using the exact words spouted by Hitler, Mussolini, Franco and their ilk. “Only I can fix this.” “I’m going to get even with my enemies!” so on. Throw in dipshit Neo-Liberal Democrats who contributed to creating this monster: the Clintons, Pelosi, Obama, Biden, Schumer, etc. following the losers’ playbook by dismissing the threat and spending more energy on their true enemies! Sen. Sanders! The Squad! The Professional Left! Those pesky kids who confronted and demanded action on Climate Change from Diane Feinstein while she was on her way to cash another check from the defense industry!
Oh, they think about the danger a little by ordering us to vote for them no matter what or democracy will die.* By the way, please forget our 50 years of inaction on abortion and donate five or ten bucks to kick another issue down the road until the Far Right settles it in their favor!
*-With Trump, it will die faster than our plan by a thousand paper cuts!
Maybe I should start believing in ghosts because it may take the millions of Hitler’s victims to haunt the Democrats to grow spines and balls bigger than their greed organs. Oh wait, if thought ghosts were real, then I’d also buy into Biden and Pelosi’s myth about reasonable Republicans are needed to save the GOP.
What’s the lesson about the Putsch? It was Germany’s January 6th. A dress rehearsal for the worst is yet to come since Orange Foolius has “sleepers” within the military, the cops and numerous state-level governments. Don’t hold your breath about the rule of law crap neither. If we don’t take the gloves off now to stomp out this problem, I fear the Pentagon will and we’ll be a giant Myanmar.