Moderators, Judges, I thank you again for your time and effort. Good luck to Zenlover. Engarde!
Before I begin, I emphasize that the topic is
A German Voter... Would Have Believed.... No defense of Nazism or its true aims is implied.
My opponent asserts that Nazism was merely an alternative to Communism. She will likely continue with a history of Communism's expansion and examples
of rule by fear in Nazi Germany, taking the term NWO for granted.
In this post I will lay the foundation for discovering the undeniable truth: That those who voted for the Nazi Party consciously supported the
foundation of a New World Order. I will:
- Define the term New World Order in the relevant historical context.
and
- Explain the socio-political climate of Germany between the reformation of the Nazi Party the end of parliamentary government in
Germany.
As the debate progresses I will elaborate on these initial points with ample demonstration that the Communist boogeyman is not an adequate
explanation. (though this may become less necessary as my opponent finds that position untenable and begins to lean more and more on alternative
arguments, such as coerced voting or perhaps even suggesting that the Nazis won a plurality in parliament with no platform at all.)
NWO?
Given this topic, we must define this term in its historical context, not its modern one which arose chiefly after WWII.
New World Order, as a semi-popular term, was born in discussion of the League of Nations. In the
14 Points Speech, given during WWI, President Wilson says of Germany:
We wish her
only to accept a place of equality among the peoples of the world, -- the new world in which we now live, -- instead of a place of
mastery.
He continues his description of this "new world" with these words:
What we demand (snip) is that the world be made fit and safe to live in; and
particularly that it be made safe for every peace-loving nation which, like our own, wishes to live its own life, determine its own institutions,
be assured of justice and fair dealing by the other peoples of the world
So Nazi voters believed they would receive from the NSDAP.
They sought to reject all foreign control, and in Germany, even a fellow countryman can be a “foreigner”.
Their goal was an New World Order under which they would be subject to no Prussian dictator, no backroom dealing nor whim of the League of Nations, no
banking conspiracies and no international puppeteering in the name of global Communism. To be free, they felt that they needed to impose a New World
Order on their own terms: a social democratic worker's utopia.
It is no surprise at all the Nazism found its foothold, and its fuhrer, and the fervor for the Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria, one of proudest and most
culturally distinct
Lander in Germany.
Germany occupies militarily untenable ground and as the birthplace of the Protestant Reformation has been heavily factionalized and fought over, both
among the many minor rulers within itself and outside powers. A nation born of Catholic conquest, raised amidst holy wars, and come of age as a
confederation of
39 sovereign states, having less than 100 years of true unity behind it (which ended in humiliation brought upon them by the
ambitions of Prussian rulers) was hard-pressed to trust foreigners with their future.
The nationalist platform of the Nazi Party appealed to a segment of a generally isolationist nation which sought peace through strength, not unlike
Roosevelt‘s “big stick“ policy which won over an isolationist American public.
To that segment of the German electorate, German history made it completely clear that there
would be an NWO; the only question was to whom it
would belong.
It was not merely a question of voting against the Communists who from 1930 on were only the 3rd largest party in Germany.
Why did 20-37% of the German voters embrace the Nazis in the elections between 1930 and 1932? (The relevant elections, before Hitler was in power,
which my opponent conveniently ignored in her sources)
Why did they take their support away from the Social Democrats, only to give it to a splinter group of that very same party: the Nazis, when
either
of those options meant Socialism but not Communism?
The answer is that keeping the Communists out was not enough. It was nationalism which ultimately gave the Nazis a plurality in 1932. Nazi voters were
not content to merely resist incorporation into a foreign NWO, Communist or otherwise. They saw that an NWO was coming, one way or another, and they
were determined to have it on their terms.
Non-Integrated References:
Timeline including the first major election of the NSDAP, in 1930
Discussion German Factionalism, relevant to their isolationist views
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