Göring’s Man
There was an article a while ago that said that American history since the civil war made much more sense if you assumed the South won, and made a reasonable case for them actually winning the peace, even if they technically lost the war.<p>I&#x27;d guess a similar argument could be made for the Nazis.<p>It&#x27;s easy to look back and think the North had our modern values, and were fighting against 19th Century racists, when really it was (broadly speaking) 19th century racists vs 19th Century racists, so it&#x27;s not surprising that the 19th century racists won.<p>Similarly, Nazi Germany wasn&#x27;t being fought by modern liberals, it was being fought (from the west) by people who were generally more positive about Hitler destroying trade unionists than they were about the Russian Revolution deposing monarchs.<p>So, it&#x27;s not really a surprise that the corporate-rich-military complex &#x27;won&#x27;, because they were on both sides. Though for a few decades afterwards, the average man in the street was needed to fend off wars, so got treated a little better than before, which could have seemed like massive and inevitable progress.