Prison Didn't Work - did it

[BertiWooster]

We are engaged in ' wars ' in various arenas around the globe . The US are about to commit thousands more soldiers to Afghanistan and NATO soon to be also .

Have a look at this - from the New York times - 1924

http://www.photobasement.com/wp-content/upload s/2008/08/tamehitler.jpg

Just think - the last big conflict WW2 might have been avoided , if those prison authorities weren't duped by Heir Hitler

Oh the irony of the last sentence.

'' It is beleived he will retire to private life and return to Austria , the country of his birth ''

[jake-the-peg]

Are you suggesting that Hitler was the sole cause of WWII?

That had he not been there nobody else would have seized the opportunity to light the fires of resentment and hatred and seize power in a nationalistic coup?

I suppose that might not have happened but you have to at least think it a fairly strong possibility that someone like Himmler or one of the others would have come to the fore or even someone from the far left

[BertiWooster]

No - i'm not suggesting that in the absence of Hitler - world war ll would not have occurred .

It wasn't that serious a statement .

The post was more in relation to the eventual irony of the reason for the prison authorities releasing him from prison

[jake-the-peg]

Yes it's a remarkable clipping especially in hindsight.

I might even steal the question on a more serious note in the history section

[Gromit]

When Hitler was on trial for high treason and organising a bank robbery, the judge was a sympathizer to the Nazi movement. During an earlier trial the same judge had given Hitler the minimum sentence, and further wrote to an appeals court to have his sentence lowered even more.
While in prison Hitler's views were very popular among the prison guards, and he served 9 months of sentence of five years, for high treason.

It suggests that rather than prisons not working, that German society was sympathetic to fascism in 1924.

[rov1200]

Makes you wonder if the far right BNP ever got control and the blacks were sent to extermination camps while pleading for their human rights.