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Sun Sep 27, 2015, 12:49 PM Sep 2015

Goebbels Is Alive and Well... In Amerika! | Philip A. Farruggio



Philip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust

Sept. 27, 2015

Peter Longerich's 2015 biography "Goebbels" instructs well how history can and does repeat itself.

Like many of the Neocons who loaded up the Bush Sr. and Jr. administrations, Nazi leader Joseph Goebbels was at first a true socialist, perhaps even a Marxist sympathizer. As a young novelist and later journalist, he had a real dislike for the Fat Cat capitalists who he and others both left and right blamed for Germany's fall from grace.

When he "found" Adolf Hitler, despite his many disappointments about Hitler from his diary entries (including the fact that Hitler was in love with his fiancé Magda... and perhaps visa versa), Goebbels joined the new Fuehrer Cult. As with many others in economically and culturally depressed Germany, Goebbels was enamored with the man he referred to as "The boss."

The need for a messianic leader, actually a dictator, was very prevalent among many in the NASD (Nazi party). Nothing else mattered as to actual policy vs. actual power. So long as Hitler hammered home pride in the "Fatherland," Volk family values and rejection of the Versailles Diktat, Goebbels forgave Hitler's indecision on other issues.

Of course, Goebbels's bitter hatred toward all things Jewish kept him on a course that Hitler himself had steered for so long. Matter of fact, in the biography we learn how even Hitler had to slow Goebbels down at times, and show more patience... and wait for the opportune moments to strike hard against the Jews.

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