{"id":23023,"date":"2016-12-25T14:03:23","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T13:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/?p=23023"},"modified":"2020-09-26T21:55:25","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T19:55:25","slug":"chaotic-nazi-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/chaotic-nazi-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaotic Nazi Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"

Something caught my eye in an article on The Logical Fallacies of History<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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“Whilst it is true that Owens\u2019 performance was indeed remarkable \u2013 he won four gold medals \u2013 he by no means spoiled the party for Hitler. The games provided him with the opportunity to showcase the organizational skills of his regime (which actually went against the grain, since Nazi Germany in many ways was run very chaotically<\/strong>).”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is new to me. The stock clich\u00e9 is that “Hitler made the trains run on time,” or maybe it was Mussolini?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Something caught my eye in an article on The Logical Fallacies of History: “Whilst it is true that Owens\u2019 performance was indeed remarkable \u2013 he won four gold medals \u2013 he by no means spoiled the party for Hitler. The games provided him with the opportunity to showcase the organizational skills of his regime (which … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[39,11],"tags":[300,296],"class_list":["post-23023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-miscellaneous","tag-processed","tag-published"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prY0k-5Zl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9353,"url":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/the-postwar-european-atrocity\/","url_meta":{"origin":23023,"position":0},"title":"The postwar European atrocity","author":"Limbic","date":"October 9, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Brilliant article at The Chronicle of Higher Education on one of the most disgraceful periods in European history: the mass explosion and mass murder of ethnic Germans after World War 2. 16,000,000 innocent civilians ethnically cleansed, 500,000 died - in peacetime! 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