Comment Re:sometimes translation to German, too! (Score 2, Insightful) 113
Hitler came to power because he had a street gang, called the Brownshirts, ensuring he would. The existing Weimar government was “blind in the right eye”, meaning it came down hard on left-wing gangs but ignored right-wing gangs like the Brownshirts. Hitler’s rise to power came because the existing German government was broken and allowed intimidation to beat (literally) democracy.
But this information will never make much of an impression on people because people need A Moral Lesson. The Moral Lesson here, apparently, is “voting is evil”.