I’ve always wondered what it would have been like to be there… I’m talking walking on the grounds of the Chancellory in Berlin looking up at the Hitler balcony and seeing that flag. I get lost in the possibilities imagining the energy vibe and how powerful that must have been.
My Grandparents grew up under the Third Reich, but they were teenagers for most of the war years, so probably had little understanding how the regime initially came to be. While they never really talked about Hitler and his regime, they did talk about how life was before that there... And it was bad. There was no work, and people were starving. Thanks in big part to the Treaty of Versailles, Germany got fucked in the ass hard.
So you have people starving, you have the excesses and degeneracy of (((Weimar))), and the Treaty of Versailles all combined... Something had to give, and it did.
I would imagine the flag represented hope to many ethnic Germans. A people and nation downtrodden, and in poor shape.
You bully a kid in high school too much, don't be surprised when he comes to school armed to the hilt and ready to rock... That was no different.
It was a brief hope for the German Volk, and I wished it could've ended better... Hitler appeals to many, since Nationalism isn't a bad ideal for well functioning societies.
Russia was a mistake, and he should have left that alone. It was too much, too fast.
That said, he has forever enshrined his persona forever more, and very, very few people have been able to do this...