re: #314 Dr Lizardo

That’s always irritated me when I hear people say, “Oh yeah, like, when Hitler was elected as leader of Germany”.

Statements like that display an abysmal knowledge of history.

I come back with, “Hitler was never elected to anything. He was appointed as Chancellor owing to a shabby political deal between two ex-Chancellors who convinced the senile President Hidenburg that a Chancellor Hitler was just what Germany needed to get it’s shit together. It was the biggest political miscalculation in modern German history.”

Yeah, people always say Hitler was elected when they’re justifying their so and so equals Hitler rant. He wasn’t elected. Hindenberg with pressure from Von Papen appointed him Chancellor which as you point out was a huge political miscalculation considering the Reichstag fire that happened not long after and Hindenberg’s death not long after.