Hitler had all kinds of stomach problems. Chronic flatulence was one of the side effects. You can google to find articles but I first read about it in this book.
In Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography, by John Toland: the author states
>Hitler’s concept of concentration camps as well as the practicality of genocide owed much, so he claimed, to his studies of English and United States history ... He admired the camps for Boer prisoners in South Africa and for the Indians in the wild west; and often praised to his inner circle the efficiency of America’s extermination—by starvation and uneven combat—of the red savages who could not be tamed by captivity.”
That is the most relevant quote I could find, maybe I'll look again after more coffee.
His experience wasn't common. I would really recommend this one: http://www.amazon.ca/Adolf-Hitler-The-Definitive-Biography/dp/0385420536
Not going to try an summarize his life in a few paragraphs, but his opinions weren't uncommon. They found support for a reason, even in America.
You are aware that Belgium, Britain, France, and the US also had concentration camps right? I grew up in Germany and the USA. Only one of these countries recognizes their crimes in their schools and history books. Can you name any US concentration camps, whether for Japanese Americans, Cubans, or Filipinos? I cannot talk about the past in terms of facts in the United States without risking finding someone to shout down facts with jingoistic patriotism. We know Hitler took inspiration from American and Ottoman purges of Native Americans, Armenians, because he said so.
Comparing evil is difficult. Is a calculating evil worse than a chaotic evil? Does death and suffering count? Do we compare absolute numbers, or length of time? The Nazis are bad, and they were in power for 12 years, and killed millions of people. The US enslaved, murdered, and terrorized millions for centuries. I don't feel the need to say the US is worse than Nazi Germany: Apples and Oranges are both fruit, but are very different. But your point seems to be that, if the United States is an Orange and Germany is an Apple, you take issue with the United States also being sweet like Germany, when they're both fruit
I'm a big fan of https://www.amazon.com/Adolf-Hitler-Definitive-John-Toland/dp/0385420536
its less dry than other biographies on him and does a decent job of humanising him so you learn about the man as well as the historical events.
I would also highly recommend Adolf Hitler by John Toland It's massive but great.
It's discussed here: http://www.amazon.ca/Adolf-Hitler-The-Definitive-Biography/dp/0385420536
>The Vatican and Pope Pius XII took a neutral position
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mit_brennender_Sorge
Historian John Toland (from this book) noted: “The Church, under the Pope’s guidance…saved the lives of more Jews than all other churches, religious institutions and rescue organizations combined…the British and Americans, despite lofty pronouncements, had not only avoided taking any meaningful action but gave sanctuary to few persecuted Jews.”
> No he wasn't. > He was gassed. Once. > He also didn't have an abusive childhood.
Whoever I was replying to with that said he was shot.
Probably THE definitive book on Hitler: https://www.amazon.ca/Adolf-Hitler-Definitive-John-Toland/dp/0385420536/ref=sr_1_sc_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1483118512&sr=8-2-spell&keywords=tolland+hitler
It's on audible as well.
I agree - he is an inspiration of sorts. Bad guys and violent war heroes can have inspirational stories too. The Trail of Tears was so much like the Russians depopulating Circassia it could have inspired them. Furthermore, Hitler himself was inspired by America's brutal history of subjecting Native American tribes, of which Andrew Jackson's wars and "diplomacy" is remembered very harshly
https://www.amazon.ca/Adolf-Hitler-Definitive-John-Toland/dp/0385420536
Buy it and read it for yourself. You're the one that needs the education, not me.
Fucking very incorrect there, bud. MAJORITY of reserve lands were intentionally place on non-arable or undesirable land. This is extremely easy to look up so you stop promoting false narratives:
>It could be because many reserves were intentionally designed to fail, located on non-arable land and far from transportation routes. Or it may be the Indian Act that further hobbled them, forbidding farming for fear of unwanted competition for European immigrants.
The reserve/ation system was a system of concentration camps/ghettos, literally directly modelled by Hitler and used in WWII:
>The idea of a prison camp – specifically Auschwitz, in Oświęcim, Poland – where Hitler’s soldiers would shoot, hang, poison, mutilate and starve men, women and children en mass was not an idea Hitler, the bigot, came up with on his own. In fact, the Pulitzer-Prize winning biographer John Toland wrote that Hitler was inspired in part by the Indian reservation system – a creation of the United States.
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>“Hitler’s concept of concentration camps as well as the practicality of genocide owed much, so he claimed, to his studies of English and United States history,” Toland wrote in his book, <em>Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography.</em> “He admired the camps for Boer prisoners in South Africa and for the Indians in the wild west; and often praised to his inner circle the efficiency of America’s extermination—by starvation and uneven combat—of the red savages who could not be tamed by captivity.”
It was not about protecting natives ways of life, it was and always was about extermination with the goal of settling within the lands of their stolen countries. Can you even name an Indigenous country? They are still here; their treaties are still valid (where there are treaties); all ~85-100 Indigenous countries in what is now Canada have names and are easily found, especially countries that fall within Québec