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there's no need to defend any good things the nazis did to germany

The good things (and the promises of more) are what make them compelling for a while. Fascism is appealing because top-down directives from an absolute leader can work… for a bit.

Eventually you run out of the low hanging fruit that can be messed with by executive fiat, and then you have to find enemies to blame.

Reminds me of the venerable Dril:

issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the terror group ISIL. you do not, under any circumstances, 'gotta hand it to them.'

Apologies. Did by no means try to mean it as a compliment to the Nazis - I just intended it as a comparison to help explain the justification at the time.

> At least the Nazi party created a strong economy in Germany

This is a myth. Wages of Destruction [1] details the Nazis’ autarkic economic incompetence.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wages_of_Destruction

It didn't even do that. The Nazi economy was a debt fuelled spending spree that needed war in an attempt to sustain itself.

Nope, it didn't. The Nazis started a war economy almost immediately and yes, they hiked employment, but the Nazi economy was boom or bust. They couldn't sustain it long term without the war.

The nazis just robbed minorities and used slave Labour to prop up their economy and rich certain people/ethnicities

Which, again, is a parallel to Trump. If the peoll,e he deports to El Salavdor start to have their assets taken by the state/their neighbours/the people that dobbed them in, good luck.

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