How long will it take for mankind to move towards the Nazis? A movie once gave us the answer: it only takes five days. After watching "The Collapse of the Empire", a question that has plagued me for a long time came to my mind again: what made this country that gave birth to Kant, Goethe, and Hegel so ignorant, and what made this nation considered rigorous and calm Such an impulse?
Lamenting its misfortune, anger is indisputable. The people of a country are often manipulated by the so-called will of the state formed by the will of one person or even a group of people. History is always repeating and tragedies are repeating itself. When one after another "great man", "hero", and "hero" are on the stage, there will always be generations of people who need to pay blood and tears for their "dreams", "struggles" and "pursuits". , Sadness and crying, the price of destruction and humiliation.
Since the defeat in the First World War of the Empire for hegemony, the Germans have always suffered the humiliation of the defeated country. Countries in the world have no dignity, huge war reparations, total loss of overseas colonies, territorial division, destruction of air force and navy, extreme compression of army... As historians say, the Germanic nation at this time is eager to rise. The nation is a nation that longs for revenge. This Hitler did not appear. There will be countless Hitlers reappearing. It was the German people who created Hitler, not Hitler who created Germany in World War II. However, it was this demon's son who led Europe to destruction. As Goebbels said, this is the fate of the German people themselves.
The cruelty of comparison is always heartbreaking.
The officers, secretaries, doctors, soldiers, and even children who have been purged by National Socialist ideology were either cannon fodder in the war, or settled themselves before being defeated, or fighting vigorously as a cart, or taking the poison with great honour, or The whole family committed suicide after desperate for the future without the head of state... Without exception, they have the sense of shattered dreams that the head of state empathizes with, they have incomparable respect and love for the head of state, and they have an infinite desire for the grand goal of this country. However, the ruined walls and the rumbling fire of the Soviet Union ruthlessly extinguished the beauty of dreams. In bullets, they left this world with lofty and regret, children and civilians also became martyrs.
Unlike the people’s worship of leaders, the so-called leaders and heads of state have never put the value of the people in their thinking. In the face of doomed failure, a head of state can refuse to surrender for the so-called "perfect curtain call on the stage of history" and destroy everything in Berlin without evacuating the civilians and letting him bear the test of so-called failure. Because in his opinion, people who can't stand the test are not worthy of mercy. In the face of obvious doomed failure, the so-called head of state only thinks about how to make his failure more "dignified."
The people are like weeds.
This has been true since ancient times.
The people can make it, but can't make it know.
The people are always being manipulated while being fooled. Even if there was a period when the education level of the people generally improved and the ideological level improved significantly, it was only this generation or several generations. The so-called universal high quality of citizens is difficult to continue, and often a policy change can end an era. The historical experience is always there. However, either the people are forgetful and the memory is forgotten in a few generations, or the people are forgotten, because there are always some people who don't want the majority of them to know too much.
A kind of sadness came to my heart. From the repeated repetition of history, we can only draw the conclusion that the general public will never get out of the cycle of being manipulated by a few people.
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