The reason Germany turned to Jackboots and the Nazis was that they had lost a huge war (WWI)...then been forced to take the entire blame for it (which was not fair in the least)...then been bankrupted by being made to pay reparations they could not afford...and had then suffered a complete economic collapse during the 20s.

That sort of thing can easily lead to Jackboots and a dictatorship in any country it happens in.

You can count yourselves very lucky in Britain that you have not yet experienced that chain of disastrous historical events, and if you ever do, you may be surprised at what extremism follows in its wake.

Without the gross punishment inflicted on Germany at the Treaty of Versailles...(and it happened because the French were determined to punish and crush Germany forever)...there would never have been a rise of Hitler and his Nazis. The French paid the price for it in 1940. They sowed the seeds of bitterness that Hitler soon turned to his advantage.

I'm not saying any of that to justify anything the Nazis did...they were an utter disaster for their own country and the world...but I'm saying you should look to the historical causes that brought them forth.

To punish a country that has just lost a great war is ridiculous! As if LOSING the war wasn't punishment enough, for God's sake. This is something the victors of wars should remember, and they should rejoice that it is over...that they won...and be generous to the vanquished. If they did, they might avoid repeating the same folly a generation later.