On this day

[Surpmil]

Don't think it is quite that simple but one disgruntled person's ideals jelled into a public fervor that brainwashed alot of ppl that they would reign supreme for a 1000 years only after their cities and citizens were laid to waste did they realise they were duped, besides the doctrine of the day said the Fuhrer was never wrong.
Thank goodness he never listened to his Generals..................................!

Now the Japanese plans for their conquests was on another scale of barbarism starting with the rape of Nanking with a trumped up event!

It was an inevitable expression of the national mentality, the Prussian mentality in particular which was famously described by Voltaire as "An army with a state". Germany was openly talking about "Der Tag" long before WWI and those who think it was some sort of accident should know that tens of thousands of German reservists were called back from overseas earlier in 1914. We know this because many who had been in North America openly talked about it after they were captured in the war. I expect a study of the shipping records would certainly confirm the fact.

No one should be surprised that the true origins of events were often successfully hidden; they are still successfully hidden from most of the population to this day.

[Bill Hollinger]

Perhaps we can stay on topic please. Thanks fellas.