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Context: This is an archived article from 1939 by "Foreign Affairs".

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/germany/1939-04-01/will-hitler-save-democracy

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[-] BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 166 points 5 months ago

No one seems to have actually read the article, just the headline. This is the ultimate click bait title - kudos to the headline writer in 1939.

The tl/dr: It's saying Hitler's authoritarian actions were galvanising other countries to step up and protect democracy after the failures after WW1.

In the final paragraph:

It is one of the most interesting phenomena of Hitler's political activity that it has resulted in bringing about so soon such an overwhelming and unprecedented manifestation of defensive solidarity amongst the democratic peoples.

And the final line of the article:

It would be the height of paradox if Hitler, of all persons, were destined by his statesmanship finally "to make the world safe for Democracy."

The article is surprisingly prescient.

[-] onion@feddit.de 55 points 5 months ago
[-] qaz@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

In my defense, the contents were blocked by a paywall

[-] Shawdow194@kbin.run 27 points 5 months ago

Like Putin uniting NATO countries

[-] Titou@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

Nah, NATO is a really bad example, it's not union it's usa controlling others members

[-] eric5949@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Go tell that to France.

[-] vxx@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

When the headline of an article is a question, the answer is always "no".

Interesting that unwritten rule applied back then as well.

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 3 points 5 months ago

I'd love to read it for myself but it's paywalled. Do you think you could run it through archive.is?

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