Rise of the Nazis

I've no interest in proving you wrong. I'm simply noting that you haven't indicated which of your statements are assertions/claims and supported them, and which are your opinions. That is the standard of posting required in this section now. You haven't met that standard. I've given you 14 examples of where you haven't met the standard required.

Lets take a couple of examples at random

4.) 'in the now standard format'

Is this an assertion/ claim? or is it an opinion you haven't declared as such?  If the former what is the source for this? Do you have some evidence that supports combining archive footage, re-enactment and talking heads is now the standard format for documentaries? Simply pointing to the documentary on Iplayer is not sufficient to support such an assertion/claim.


9.) The BBC’s main contribution to this series is in knitting the three elements together as well as orchestrating the talking heads.

What is the source for this assertion / claim? Do you have any evidence to support this? The documentary itself isn't evidence for this. What source do you have that demonstrates the BBC did this, or in fact did anything to contribute beyond ponying up the dough to pay for the documentary?

What is the relevance of your observations to the topic of the thread?

Pretty sure anti-aircraft shells were set to go off at a certain altitude with timed fuses so only the duds would fall back to earth.

To be quite frank with you I'm bored shitless talking about Hitler but it is slightly less boring than talk to myself. Everyone goes on about war - everyone ignore positive progress. I've tested this theory countless times on the Brits. There is only one thing more boring and that is football. Anyway, I've looked into the wider political going on during the time and it is safe to say we were not run by saints. Radio was a military tool, like most things invented in Blighty it was inspired by death. Even nuclear power, which you might see as positive was eagerly pursued not because it was a benefit to us but a benefit to the military. All they do now is switch to Putin and make him the new Hitler. The Schiller Institute did some good research on propaganda of this period.

On the guns the Germans had 88m anti-flak guns for shooting at aircraft though they could also turn them towards destroying tanks not sure if they used different ammo.

Did the Nazis simply respond to American anti-semitism

alba-valb.org/resource/anti-semitism-in-the-1920s-and-1930s/

"Anti-Semitism existed in America from early colonial days. Until the Civil War, however, as long as Jews were only a small percentage of the country’s population, it remained latent. Anti-Semitism became more open in the 1880s with the arrival of approximately two million Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. They came mostly from areas of the Russian empire where religious persecution was common. By the end of the nineteenth century conditions for Jews worsened with the passage of more restrictive legislation and recurrent government sponsored violent attacks against Jewish communities called pogroms. Jews began fleeing in great numbers to the United States. Many Americans who traced their roots to northwestern Europe and Scandinavia grew increasingly concerned with the arrival of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe whom they considered to belong to inferior “races” and additionally in the case of Jews, because of their religious beliefs.



Anti-Semitism was based on a combination of pervasive and contradictory Jewish stereotypes. Jews were portrayed as vulgar “money grabbing” capitalists as well as dangerous revolutionaries. Anti-Semitism spread through every aspect of American society: Newspapers and magazines commonly printed anti-Semitic articles and cartoons; anti-Semites held high positions in the federal government particularly in the State department; Jews were excluded from social clubs and faced discrimination in employment opportunities, especially in the professions; many towns adopted zoning regulations to prevent the sale of land and houses to Jews. Starting in 1922, following the example of Harvard, many prominent northeastern universities imposed strict quotas on the numbers of Jews they admitted.



During the 1920s, automaker Henry Ford’s weekly newspaper, the Dearborn Independent (with a circulation of 700,000) launched a vicious campaign against what he termed “The International Jew” which he accused of everything from threatening the capitalist system to undermining the moral values of the nation, and finally he even held them responsible for World War I."



In 1911 a book was published in Germany which praised the contribution of Germany's Jews to the success of the German state. Germany was a success because of ... apart from other factirs ... the "... financial skills of Germany's Jews". The founding and rise of Germany was seen by some non-German antisemites as " a Jewish plot".

In the mid-30s several American aircraft designers ... amongst the most skilled in the world ... went to Germany and helped them build up their airforce. Most the German planes involved in the early part of the war had significant features designed by these American experts.