First of all, let me state that I am very loyal to the USA.
“My country, right or wrong, my country”

© 1999 Kurt Elder

People of the century

Adolph Hitler was one of the greatest leaders that this century has ever seen.  The fact is that I have this stuck in my head until others can prove me wrong without using the holocaust as an example.  I suppose that idea will remain there, in my mind.

Adolph was the German version of a quiet man, an American man, who fought and spoke out against the government and all the wrongs that it was doing.  He led marches to overthrow what he thought to be an unjust government.  He worked and labored, gaining support for his party and its ideas.  He worked his way into positions of power so that he could further advance himself and his party.

Hitler wasn’t some maniac who slipped through the cracks.  He was an intelligent man who was trying to best serve his country.  He alone brought Germany out of a huge depression.  You might say that he was the Roosevelt of the German people.  By lifting their spirits and pushing them out of their own self-pity, he drove the German people back onto the road of ‘forward progress.’

He had a commanding voice and a news press team that could send and receive word about everything that was happening in the country.  He was an organized and insightful man who saw a chance to increase his country’s potential success.  He built the autobahn to help encourage and promote business.  He built everything from (yes) war materials to pots and pans.

The swastika was their symbol.  Most people nowadays see fear in this symbol and think of only hatred when it is flashed before their eyes.  The truth is that the symbol is actually a symbol of peace.  So, in our own way, we were out to rid the world of a man with a dream/vision.  All the while, he was carrying a peace symbol.  (Now, that's looking outside the box!)

Isn’t it odd how the Germans made their governmental symbol so similar to one of our dearest symbols?  Their symbol was a black, red, and white eagle (well, it resembles an eagle) with a circle in the center of the bird’s chest.  In the white circle was a black peace symbol.

We have a glorious eagle with a shield covering its chest.  It has arrows in one talon and a fig leaf in the other (representing peace).  If you haven’t figured it out, that’s the image on the back of the quarter and fifty-cent pieces.  This symbol is also part the ‘Presidential Seal.’  So, it is close, but yet so far away.

Could the Germans have been our little buddy who followed us around everywhere we went? 

I’d like to write more, and I probably will, but I’m tired and I have a crick in my neck.  I think that I’ll go jogging.  If I’ve offended anyone, I’m sorry.  I was just trying to provoke thought.

My opinion is mine and mine alone.