Status Updates From The Third Reich in Power (T...

I have never liked Stalin but I think it is finally time to read and understand WHY I don't like him from the perspective of somebody who is anti-fascist, anti-capitalist, and pro-communist.

I've been operating on the phrase that Stalin was a fascist, and it always gets people mad so ha ha.

Contrary to popular myth, the Nazis were not a "brutally efficient State" quite the opposite in fact.

The average voter always manages to sound simultaneously more stupid and more evil than the regime they cheer for. 'I am so scared of the Nazis. Not because of [evil] but because they seized **someone's toothbrush** when they tried to kill him for being a Jew. That, my friend, is socialism.'
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We all know the S.A was gay, but do we know how gay the S.S was? (I know this is a homophobic talking point, but listen...)

How prevalent was homosexuality in the S.A? Like, we all know that Rohm was gay, but so far, this hasn't popped up (yet) as being anything relevant; but outside of Rohm, there's the fact that decent chunks of the leadership were also gay.

Was it just pederasty - especially considering that it specified an 18 year old boy (better than Republicans today haha) - or was there "romantic love" homosexuality too?

I like reading the recap even though I just finished the first book in this trilogy, but I feel like it's important to mention that the Social Democrats had used the far-right FreeCorps (far-right according to Evans btw) in stopping the Communists - which resulted in the death of Rosa Luxembourg. It is this event that would constitute a huge part of why the KPD and SPD refused to work together later.

I feel like I've grown up with two competing narrative on WW1.
1) The Germans were just as much victims as the Entente nations. This mostly applies to the individual soldiers, but sometimes transcends to the nation as well.
2) The Germans were morally more abhorrent than the Entente and the consequences for their defeat was completely deserved.