Reply #63: My husband is Dutch

[China_cat]

His parents grew up under the Nazi occupation. His mother made the same comments to us and in December she died...scared for what we may still have to live through. When people who were there say there's a strong comparison, we should be listening.

And no, nobody thought Uncle Adolf was anything but a joke for a very long time. As we call Bush Dubya and the Chimp, Hitler was known as the 'little corporal', 'the housepainter', and Chaplin's understudy. He was NOT taken seriously at all even by those who supported him in the beginning.