What do you think National Socialism got wrong?

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[–]Lugger 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I mean in terms of general philosophy...

The most important thing? Excessive expansionist tendencies.

The Nazis, ever since they took power in the 1930s, were building up the military and preparing the German people for a bloody war were going to wage to secure Germany as Europe's dominant power and conquer large areas of land (especially Slavic land) for colonization. We all know how their stupid war turned out — the Nazi asses kicked, Europe devastaded and tens of millions of Europeans dead.

I once mentioned that if the Natzees had dropped their retard-tier warlike plans and focused entirely on making Germany as prosperous as possible, they would have gone down in history as wise and capable rulers, but, since pretty much entire Nazi Germany's economy revolved around building stuff for the upcoming war (factories, vehicles, railroads etc.), I'm not sure they would have even managed to improve German economy by not war-centered ways.

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How does a leader of a people, fouding his regime on the idea of one people, one nation, justify letting parts of his nation and of his people get brutalized and genocided in places cleaved off by the Versailles treaty?

[–]Lugger 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If Hitler felt he had a responsibility for the Germans who lived on his country's former territories he should've made attempts to move the willing ones within its contemporary borders, not start a war of aggression to try and secure Slavic and other Europeans' land.

You know what's funny, though? Ultimately and thanks to Hitler's actions Germany lost even more provinces and the local German folk were moved out of there and into the remaining German territories by force — something that I believe the Entente powers should have done following the treaty of Versailles as well.