Hartmann is carefully selective in his presentation of his-story. He omits everything that doesn't fit and to make the parallels even more compelling he cheats in details. Take for instance the 'God with us' he mentions and for the sake of the parallel fails to mention that this inscription also had been there during the first world war, perhaps even earlier, and that under Hitler that inscription was changed to another (without God) at least for parts of the German army.

It is easy to rewrite the story, selectively too, with a completely different comparison in mind. Teribus has done that.

For truly to learn from history it has to be presented as unbiased as possible. I see no real attempt at that in Hartmann's piece. It is interesting to read, but it is propaganda and as much worth as propaganda is.

Wolfgang