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Re:They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955) by amanaplanacanal on Friday November 13, 2020 @01:18PM (#25085520)
I can imagine arming myself if I felt my neighbors or myself were in danger, but the idea of arming myself and my friends to drive to some other neighborhood or city to “protect” them is beyond anything that makes sense to me.
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Re:They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955) by anonunivgrad on Friday November 13, 2020 @03:04PM (#25086783)
You really can’t imagine why vigilates’ sense of citizenship would extend beyond a neighborhood? And if we are assuming only selfish self interest, what happens in one neighborhood doesn’t stay there. I’m not saying their actions were right, but they’re not hard to understand.
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Re:They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955) by dang on Friday November 13, 2020 @05:13PM (#25088154)
Would you please stop using HN for political and ideological flamewar? As you know, this is not what HN is supposed to be for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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