The surviving leadership of the Nazi Party was grafted directly onto NATO and to the extended network of fascist US/UK business interests that continued to dominate the West at the end of the war.

FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 28d (7 replies)

Hitler took the idea of manifest destiny from the Americans murdering the native population (great job Pete protecting their medals cause that’s all you have on your fucking calendar today), used it on Europe, then we Paperclipped their nerds to build better rockets…it’s been racist and fascist in the air for a long time now but it most certainly was not just ze Germans

Pretty much all of American history taught in schools is either a lie or heavily edited

starlinguk@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 28d (6 replies)

No. You didn't invent everything, America.

IndustryStandard@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 27d (2 replies)

Europeans invented America. Through slavery and white supremacy.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 27d

europeans are volcanoes, you heart it first on lemmy

starlinguk@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 27d

There you have it.

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 28d

Yeah we definitely did not.

However, I'm not sure why you're posting this here because Hitler was absolutely heavily inspired by both the genocide of the native peoples, as well as post slavery laws like Jim Crow.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/lebensraum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensraum

The ideologies found at the root of Hitler's implementation of Lebensraum modeled that of German colonialism of the New Imperialism period as well as the American ideology of manifest destiny. Hitler had great admiration for the United States' territorial expansion and saw the destruction of Native American peoples and their cultures that took place during the United States' westward expansion as a template for German expansion.

https://www.history.com/articles/how-the-nazis-were-inspired-by-jim-crow

https://macmillan.yale.edu/europe/publications/hitlers-american-modelthe-united-states-and-making-nazi-race-law-2017

https://hmh.org/event/the-impact-of-racist-ideologies-jim-crow-and-the-nuremberg-laws/

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 27d

hey, that comment really azorians my projects

we invented that one, right?

ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 27d

You really can’t help yourself, can you?

electric_nan@lemmy.ml · 46 pts · 28d

"Neo Nazis used to make pilgrimages to Hitler's birthplace. Now they work there!"

cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone · 40 pts · 28d

converting hitler's birthplace to a police station?

something something some of those who work forces are the same who burn crosses

LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 28d (9 replies)

The fuck? I would have bulldozed it a long time ago and built a waste processing plant.

realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip · 6 pts · 28d (5 replies)

Bulldozing a perfectly good house build hundreds of years ago in the middle of a city might be the dumbest idea you could have.

UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 28d (2 replies)

Can't believe they ruined a perfectly good piece of statuary like that. What a waste! People in the 1940s were such morons.

realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 28d

When was the last time you've seen anyone live in a statuary?

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 27d

This is Mr. Hilter of Brown New Hostel. Mr. Hilter, would you stand up please. (after a pause - nothing happens) Mr. Hilter has learnt the value of not being seen. However he has chosen a very obvious piece of cover.

some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 28d

But what if it's a cursed house, and produces a dictator every 150 years or some shit? /s

village604@adultswim.fan · 6 pts · 28d

Plus, Nazis would still make the pilgrimage to an empty lot.

Fmstrat@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 28d

It was being used as a care home.

ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 28d (1 reply)

Waste processing plants and police stations yield the same respect from me in most contexts. Honestly, I think was reprocessing plants have the edge overall.

RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip · 4 pts · 27d

Why? Waste processing plants perform an important service to increase the health and safety of the citizenry. Sure they smell bad sometimes but so do we.

thefluffiest@feddit.nl · 18 pts · 28d

Don’t give the police any ideas…

bagsy@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 28d (8 replies)

A bulldozer is another great option.

daggermoon@piefed.world · 13 pts · 28d (6 replies)

It's a perfectly good building. Why destroy a home because an evil person lived there?

fizzle@quokk.au · 12 pts · 28d (2 replies)

If I lived in a suburb and nazis were always coming to visit whatever thing I would want to dismantle that thing to stop the nazis coming.

Duamerthrax@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 28d

They would still come and leave memorials. Making it a police station is daring them to still do it and see how quickly they get arrested.

daggermoon@piefed.world · 1 pts · 28d

Fair point.

SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 28d (2 replies)

Taint

daggermoon@piefed.world · 2 pts · 28d (1 reply)

I get that some people feel that way but I sort of see it the same way as I see a murder house. The fact that someone was murdered in a house does not affect the material condition of the building. Ultimately Austria can do as they wish with it. It just seems wasteful to me to destroy it. I'd rather see it made into an LGBT museum or something else Hitler would have hated that will benefit the community while pissing off nazis.

SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 27d

There's varying levels of taint. And then how to responding to different levels of taint is always historically controversial.

I'm not losing any sleep over Hitler's house being obliterated, though.

Fmstrat@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 28d

They're doing that first. And secretly disposing of the rubble.

HubertManne@piefed.social · 16 pts · 28d (8 replies)

should have sold it to a jewish group to build a synagogue.

village604@adultswim.fan · 30 pts · 28d (2 replies)

That would have inspired hate crimes.

HubertManne@piefed.social · 5 pts · 28d

good be a good honeypot though. Keep it under survellence. get them out of the population.

Notyou@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 28d

Put the police station across the street?

quick_snail@feddit.nl · 9 pts · 28d (3 replies)

I mean, it was housing disabled people before. That's just as good

Fmstrat@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 28d

Yes and no. Living in a care hone with Nazis showing up at your door can't be all that relaxing. As long as they pay to relocate that, it's a better idea IMO.

Test_Tickles@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 28d (1 reply)

Wow, someone just earned the title of the world's most brutal art critic.

wide_eyed_stupid@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 27d

Ha, got a chuckle out of me!

robocall@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 28d

There weren't many Jewish people there after the war. And there was a lot of ambivalence about their fate immediately after the war, with a focus on rebuilding. And a concern that a genocide against them could happen again if they returned.

homoludens@feddit.org · 13 pts · 28d (5 replies)

Can we get a rule about not posting current news?

AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 28d

Agreed, TIL is becoming current events.

Fmstrat@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 28d (3 replies)

Hmm, fair. If this rule had existed I wouldn't have posted. Granted, I learned about it through word of mouth (in Austria right now), so I found the news article after. Didn't actually realize it was super-fresh news.

SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 28d (2 replies)

Did they just turn it into a police station???

AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 28d (1 reply)

Yes

SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 27d

"Da, da. Dis ist HER HITLERS HAUS." A cop, probably.

Njos2SQEZtPVRhH@piefed.social · 12 pts · 27d (3 replies)

TIL everything that was in todays newspaper. I always figured the TIL-format was mostly for things that you could've learned before, but only just learned today. Peculiar little known facts.

Fmstrat@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 27d

TIL https://feddit.org/comment/14089300

Canconda@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 27d

Only the police station is new. I would have never expected that hitler's birth home was still standing.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 27d

TIL OP learned what TIL meant

WoodScientist@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 28d

Shame it's in the middle of a neighborhood. If it was a farmhouse out in the country, I would have suggested turning it into a sewage lagoon.

nonentity@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 28d (5 replies)

So they explicitly chose to legitimise said pilgrimages.

The only acceptable use is as a gender neutral public toilet block.

WoodScientist@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 28d (3 replies)