sounds familiar?

27/10/2008

“We have no interest in oppressing other people. We are not moved by hatred against any other nation. We bear no grudge. I know how grave a thing war is. I wanted to spare our people such an evil. It is not so much the country; it is rather its leader. He has led a reign of terror. He has hurled countless people into the profoundest misery. Through his continuous terrorism, he has succeeded in reducing millions of his people to silence. The Czech maintenance of a tremendous military arsenal can only be regarded as a focus of danger. We have displayed a truly unexampled patience, but I am no longer willing to remain inactive while this madman ill-treats millions of human beings.”

– Adolf Hitler, April 14, 1939, justifying the German invasion of Czechoslovakia.

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sometimes history is scary

23/10/2007

sometimes history does repeat … at the nuremberg trials in 1946, hermann goering, one of hitler’s top men, ushered in this ceasar-esque statement. although some people are trying to refute this statement by saying it’s an urban myth, research has proven (from the records of the nuremberg trial) that goering did make this exact statement.

hermann goering was captured at the end of the second world war. most of hitler’s other top men had been killed or committed suicide. goering was initially confident that the nuremberg trials would go his way, but he became increasingly despondent when he realised his views of the world were not reflected by others. he was found guilty, unanimously, and sentenced to death by hanging. a few days before he was due to be hanged, someone smuggled goering a cyanide pill and he committed suicide.

it’s ironic, because everything he said can be seen in the actions of the current american bush administration.

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