That one time Hitler almost shit his pants.
“The forty-eight hours after the march into the Rhineland were the most nerve-racking in my life. If the French had marched into the Rhineland, we would have had to withdraw with our tail between our legs, for the military resources at our disposal would have been wholly inadequate for even a moderate resistance.”
— Adolf Hitler
Not gonna be a long post.
If you’re not familiar, this History Place article provides a fantastic overview of the Nazis’ march into the Rhineland that began on March 7th, 1936.
It talks about both Hitler’s motivations and also the outcome. The quote above comes from the piece.
In a nutshell, Adolf Hitler’s first act of aggression was a bluff.
A gamble.
He was bullshitting.
The Nazi war machine did not have the capability to wage war. Those in charge knew it.
But they rolled into the Rhineland anyway.
And then the Holocaust happened.
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Riffing off of other posts:
• The New Einsatzgruppen wants to talk fatherhood. Oh, boy!
• Bros: America’s new Jews.
• Operation White Privilege. 1.6.2021.
• The Doug Manchins and Kyrsten Sinemas in my life.
• America will so rock at this fascism thing.
• Swiftboating, seventeen years later.
• The Donald Trump Tax.
• Open letter to a selfie of my drunk-ass self, taken on August 11th, 2001.
I write fiction and have two dark comedies available, Fearkiller (Volume 1) and Notes from Trillionaire Island: Fearkiller (Volume 2), as well as Revolutionizer Alpha, the first book in a sci-fi series. I also wrote a story about God. It was weird, but then I decided to make the story and its sequel free. And all of the sudden, it didn’t seem as weird. Writing about God is much less weird when you write about God without charging money for it.
Here’s my professional site, my trade.
