THE RISE OF THE FOURTH REICH

by "What Really Happened"

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Everyone likes to say, "Hitler did this", and, "Hitler did that". But the truth is Hitler did very
little. He was a world class tyrant, but the evil actually done by the Third Reich, from the
death camps to WW2 was all done by German citizens who were afraid to question if
what they were told by their government was the truth or not, and who because they did
not want to admit to themselves that they were afraid to question the government,
refused to see the truth behind the Reichstag Fire, refused to see the invasion by
Poland was a staged fake, and followed Hitler into national disaster.

The German people of the late 1930s imagined themselves to be brave. They saw
themselves as the heroic Germans depicted by the Wagnerian Operas, the descendants
of the fierce Germanic warriors who had hunted wild boars with nothing but spears and
who had defeated three of Rome's mightiest legions in the Tuetenberg Forest.

But in truth, by the 1930s, the German people had become civilized and tamed,
culturally obsessed with fine details in both science and society. Their self-image of
bravery was both salve and slavery. Germans were required to behave as if they were
brave, even when they were not.

It's easy to look back and realize what a jerk Hitler was. But at the time, Hitler looked
pretty good to the German people, with the help of the media. He was TIME Magazine's
Man Of The Year in 1938. The German people assumed they were safe from a tyrant.
They lived in a Republic, after all, with strict laws regarding what the government could
and more importantly could not do. Their leader was a devoutly religious man, and had
even sung with the boy's choir of a monastery in his youth.

The reality was that the German people, as individuals, had lost their courage. The
German government preferred it that way as a fearful people are easier to rule than a
courageous one. But the German people didn't wish to lose their self-image of courage.
So, when confronted with a situation demanding individual courage, in the form of a
government gone wrong, the German people simply pretended that the situation did not
exist. And in that simple self-deception lay the ruin of an entire nation and the coming of
the second World War.

When the Reichstag burned down, most Germans simply refused to believe suggestions
that the fire had been staged by Hitler himself. They were afraid to. But so trapped were
the Germans by their belief in their own bravery that they willed themselves to be blind
to the evidence before their eyes, so that they could nod in agreement with Der Fuhrer
while still imagining themselves to have courage, even as they avoided the one situation
which most required real courage; to stand up to Hitler's lies and deceptions.

When Hitler requested temporary extraordinary powers, powers specifically banned
under German law, but powers Hitler claimed he needed to have to deal with the
"terrorists", the German people, having already sold their souls to their self-delusions,
agreed. The temporary powers were conferred, and once conferred lasted until
Germany itself was destroyed. When Hitler staged a phony invasion from Poland, the
vast majority of the German people, their own self-image dependant on continuing
blindness to Hitler's deceptions, did not question why Poland would have done
something so stupid, and found themselves in a war.

But Hitler knew he ruled a nation of cowards, and knew he had to spend the money to
make the new war something cowards could fight and win. He decorated his troops with
regalia to make them proud of themselves, further trapping them in their self-image.
Hitler copied the parade regalia of ancient Rome, to remind the Germans of the defeat
of the legions at the Tuetenberg Forest. Talismans were added from orthodox religions
and the occult to fill the soldiers with delusions of mystical strengths and an afterlife if
they fell in battle. Finally, knowing that it takes courage to kill the enemy face to face,
Hitler spent vast sums of money on his wonder weapons, airplanes, submarines,
ultra-long range artillery, the world's first cruise missile and the world's first guided
missile, weapons that could be used to kill at a distance, so that those doing the killing
need not have to face the reality of what they were doing.

The German people were lured into WW2 not because they were brave, but because
they were cowards who wanted to be seen as brave, and found that shooting long range
weapons at people they could not see took less courage than standing up to Hitler. Sent
into battle by that false image of courage, the Germans were dependent on their
wonder-weapons. When the wonder-weapons stopped working, the Germans lost the
war.

I remember as a child listening to the stories of WW2 from my grandfather and my
uncles who had served in Europe. I wondered how the German people could have been
so stupid as to have ever elected Hitler dog catcher, let alone leader of the nation. Such
is the clarity of historical hindsight. And with that clarity, I see the exact same
mechanism that Hitler used at work here in this nation.

The American people imagine themselves to be brave. They see themselves as the
heroic Americans depicted by Western Movies, the descendants of the fierce patriot
warriors who had tamed the frontier and defeated the might of the British Empire.

But in truth, by the dawn of the third millennium, the American people have become
civilized and tamed, culturally obsessed with fine details in both science and society.
Their self-image of bravery is both salve and slavery. Americans are required to behave
as if they are brave, even when they are not.

The American people assume they are safe. They live in a Republic, after all, with strict
laws regarding what the government can and more importantly cannot do. Their leader
is a devoutly religious man.

The reality is that the American people, as individuals, have lost their courage. The
government prefers it that way as a fearful people are easier to rule than a courageous
one. But Americans don't wish to lose their self-image of courage. So, when confronted
with a situation demanding courage, in the form of a government gone wrong, the
American people simply pretend that the situation does not exist.

When the World Trade Towers collapsed, most Americans simply refused to believe
suggestions that the attacks had been staged by parties working for the US Government
itself. Americans were afraid to, even as news reports surfaced proving that the US
Government had announced plans for the invasion of Afghanistan early in the year,
plans into which the attacks on the World Trade Towers which angered the American
people into support of the already-planned war fit entirely too conveniently. But so
trapped are Americans by their belief in their own bravery that they will themselves to be
blind to the evidence before their eyes, so that they can nod in agreement with the
government while still imagining themselves to have courage, even as they avoid the
one situation which most requires real courage; to stand up to the government's lies and
deceptions. The vast majority of the American people, their own self-image dependant
on continuing blindness to the government's deceptions, never question why
Afghanistan would have done something so stupid as to attack the United States, and as
a result, Americans find themselves in a war.

Now the US Government has requested temporary extraordinary powers, powers
specifically banned under Constitutional law, but powers the government is claiming they
need to have to deal with the "terrorists". The American people, having already sold
their souls to their self-delusions, are agreeing. The temporary powers recently
conferred will be no more temporary in America than they were in Germany.

The US Government knows they rule a nation of cowards. The government has had to
spend the money to make the new war something cowards can fight. The government
has decorated the troops with regalia to make them proud of themselves, further
trapping them in their self-image. Talismans are added from orthodox religions and the
occult to fill the soldiers with delusions of mystical strengths and an afterlife if they fall in
battle. Finally, knowing that it takes courage to kill the enemy face to face, the United
States government has spent vast sums of money on wonder weapons, airplanes,
submarines, ultra-long range artillery, cruise missiles, and guided missiles, weapons that
kill at a distance, so that those doing the killing need not have to face the reality of what
they are doing.

As I mentioned above, Hitler was TIME Magazine's Man Of The Year in 1938. Stalin was
TIME Magazine's Man Of The Year for 1939 and 1942. Both of these men, and many
others also celibrated by the media, were unimaginable monsters. The lesson from
these facts is that it isn't easy to spot a genocidal tyrant when you live with one,
especially one whom the press supports and promotes. Tyrants become obvious only
when looking back, after what they have done becomes known. The German people did
not stand up to Hitler because their media betrayed them, just as the American media is
betraying the American people by willingly, voluntarily, even proudly, abandoning its
traditional role as watchdog against government abuse.

It is the very nature of power that it attracts the sort of people who should not have it.
The United States, as the world's last superpower, is a prize that attracts men and
women willing to do absolutely anything to win that power, and hence are also willing to
do absolutely anything with that power once they have it. If one thinks about it long
enough, one will realize that all tyrants, past and most especially present, MUST use
deception on their population to initiate a war. No citizen of a modern industrialized
nation will send their children off to die in a war to grab another nation's resources and
assets, yet resources and assets are what all wars are fought over. The nation that
wishes to initiate a war of conquest must create the illusion of an attack or a threat to
start a war, and must always give their population of cowards an excuse never to
question that carefully crafted illusion.

It is naive, not to mention racist to assume that tyrants appear only in other nations and
that somehow America is immune simply because we're Americans. America has
escaped the clutches of a dictatorship thus far only through the efforts of those citizens
who, unlike the Germans of the 1930s, have the moral courage to stand up and point
out where the government is lying to the people. And unless more Americans are willing
to have that kind of individual courage, then future generations may well look back on
the American people with the same harshness of judgement with which we look back on
the 1930s Germans.