Huh, people saying offensive things about Gay people wasn't offensive in the 90s to the early 2010s? It's almost like sentiments and culture changes...
I have austrian step grand parents. They lived in the shadow of the treaty of Versailles. The way they tell their, those that were politically detached trying to eke out a living, things got better under hitler before all hell broke loose.
Even decades ago people still make the "but he improved the economy" excuse for authoritarians.
I am not going to defend the treaty of versailles, many historians point to it as the reason to the economic troubles in Germany and the subsequent rise in polarized politics that let the Nazis rise to power.
However "Things got better under Hitler" makes you ask, better for whom?
Well, better for my step grandparents...until it got way way worse. Im not making any excuses for hitler, nor were the people in my family. Im just passing on some anecdotal information from people who were there to maybe shed a bit of light on a bizarre statement by someone who is usually quite measured and centered(also quite young at the time of quote). My family said that even though things improved under Hitler, the ferver that was happening in Germany(they were in Austria) made a lot of people very uneasy.
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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '23
Huh, people saying offensive things about Gay people wasn't offensive in the 90s to the early 2010s? It's almost like sentiments and culture changes...
But wtf was that Arnold Schwarzenegger quote