Nazi ideology

[Paul Mackin]

On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Coffey, Mitchell R wrote:
> 
> Any case, connoisseurs of human perversity might consider the following 
> progression.  Hitler, unable to defeat his third most powerful 
> potential enemy, the UK attacked, unprovoked, his second most powerful 
> potential enemy, the USSR.  Having failed to defeat Russia, then after 
> Pearl Harbor, when the US declared war on Japan, but not Germany, Hitler, 
> in a completely unnecessary response to his _defensive_ treaty with Japan, 
> declared war on his most powerful potential enemy, the United States.


It's as if he WANTED to lose. But I don't suppose Hitler wanted to lose
any more than Bill Gates wanted to be broken up. However great success
can cause great blindnesses and unavoidable mistakes in judgement (it
would seem).
		P.