Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-10975360-20130619171432/@comment-32656-20130622092510

"Little" ASB? Not even remotely a true statement. Not a single thing about that, Sam, is not ASB.

Yes, Speer was a member of the Nazi party. More or less irrelevant. Without Hitler, the man is nothing. There is even fairly good evidence out there that he did not care for much of what the party did. Man only joined, really, because he admired Hitler.

Them winning does not mean that there is no politics.

Actually, it is not hard to indoctrinate children and teens. Only takes a few weeks. Modern Historians actually do not underestimate it - but you are vastly overstating it.

The Nazis and Communists under Hitler and Stain were very different. Their styles of leadership did hold similarities, true, but they were not the same.

Communism, as a whole, is less unstable than Nazism. There has been countless indications of that through history.

The Nazi movement was more or less entirely based on one man. The number of party members that had joined - like Speer, for example - simply because Hitler was an amazing public speaker is astounding. Remove Hitler from it, and the Nazis go too.

Communism, however, outlasted Stalin. His movement was not based around him in the same way, and was not cultlike towards him. Very wrong about him having a cult, Sam. Stalin ruled through fear - unlike Hitler, who did more through devotion than anything.

Even in their methods there are differences - Hitler had specific targets in mind. Stalin did not, overall - he did not care who he had killed.

At best, following the death of Hitler you have something like Franco's death happen. At worst, many parties fighting a civil war. Most likely some sort of military takeover and SS imprisonment.