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Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
Plus, y'know, Nazi Germany being a clusterfuck of competing agencies.

At least they didn't have the Army and Navy murdering one another a la Imperial Japan.

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Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
And Germany was such a rich and technologically advanced and populous country that you could burn decades of accumulated capital and developments to tear a swathe through the very heart of Europe. Doesn't mean you'll get a good long-term outcome from it.

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
I guess they thought the right-wingers were controllable, while the left-wingers were an existential threat to the nobles and bourgeois.

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit

JaucheCharly posted:

That about great polish collaboration is hogwash. That about raging antisemitism not.

It really seems the best method to control two other groups is to lower one below the other, the slightly-higher one will do most of the heavy lifting in suppressing the other.

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
The fact that the elements of the French state, aka some of the most stereotypically arrogant fuckers ever, would even consider collaborating with the Germans just to stick it to the drat modernists, boggles my mind.

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