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[–]Cornfed 11 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

Is that such a good example? The German government of the time actually liked and served the interests of most German people. That is the opposite of current evil Western regimes who hate their populations.

[–]jamesK_3rd 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

I think you proved the point, intentions are irrelevant because none of us knows the future, and the benevolent Cesar of today may not be the same tomorrow.

Then again, the only thing I know for sure is that work makes one free.

[–]asterias 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

In the meantime, USSR had the "internal passport" and there wasn't even a pretext that it was about health.

[–]jet199 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Well sort of.

Hitler personally had a hated of sick, disabled and mad people so while this might have helped you while you were well-ish if you got serious ill you ran the risk of being euthanised.

Of course many in the party weren't overly keen on this approach as many of them had disabilities themselves.

[–]Cornfed 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Even if we assume the euthanasia program isn't a pack of lies (and BTW, modern Western countries have extensive real euthanasia programs) it would have been in the interests of most German people. Liberal marriage laws, a tradition of looking after defectives and WW1 had meant that Germany had a lot of defective people who were a burden on the rest of the population, so the government indulged in good benevolent problem solving. That is radically different from Satanic Western regimes who want to exterminate their founding stock populations. Surely we could get over the "This like nazis therefore bad" silly meme.

[–]Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They literally had a disabiltiy program, impregnated in Feder's manifesto. They only started to euthanise "mentally insane" people due to caring for them taking away people for the war effort. Not condonign any of it.