Status Updates From The Rise and Fall of the Th...

Biggest takeaway that no on wants to tell u: Hitler was only able to do his thing cuz a bunch of corporations were funding him for like 10 years before the Nazis won anything because they knew a working class movement was gonna take over and they'd rather it be fascism than communism bc fascism wouldn't jeopardize their business especially after they'd been paying off Hitler for years

"[The Third Reich] was inaugurated in peacetime, and peacefully, by the Germans themselves, out of both their weaknesses and their strengths. The Germans imposed the Nazi tyranny on themselves. Many of them, perhaps a majority, did not quite realize it at that noon hour of January 30, 1933, when President Hindenburg, acting in a perfectly constitutional manner, entrusted the chancellorship to Adolf Hitler."

60 hr audiobook wish me luck… an hour in and it’s already horrifying the parallels