Then give me answer to question that never got a proper answer. Why Germans supported einstein through the war? Whenever someone brings that, answer is that Germans couldn't overthrow him (he was too strong) which kinda makes sense or my favorite, that he was magician and that whole Germany was under his spell
Believe me, I lived under a tyrant. I know how that looks like and why people support a tyrant and when and why they decide to stop supporting him. You didn't, all you know about einstein you learned from history books and your ancestors.
In my case, support stopped when people realised that tyrant is weak and can't win anymore. That is the only moment they turned their backs to him. If he won (against NATO) he would still have fantastic support of his countrymen. If people live decently under a tyrant, they will always support him. Putin is tyrant too but people are satisfied with his rule.
People overthrow the likes of PolPot because he was doing some serious damage to his country. If he did that to foreign country but they lived a good life, they would support him. It's not about good or bad, it's about living a good life. Most people still eat meat (million of dead animals everyday) and use products made by poor and malnourished people who live short and pitiful lives but they don't care. What is important to them is to live good. Ideals are just an excuse and in most cases, circlejerking.
They voted for him cuz he was promising work and food. Most people at that time when albert rose to power didn't even take him serious. He was a man shouting a lot, showing off on parades but he promised work and food. And he kept his promise. That's where the support came from at the early beginnings before the war even started.
Most people were still okay with the Poland thing but people already became sceptic a that point.
You all seem to forget though that at this point albert already had a whole state system under his control. You couldn't talk, drink, eat or shit w/o the fear that your neighbour, co-worker or even distant relative won't rat you out to the police or Gestapo. Everyone was afraid cuz, although nobody talked about it, everyone knew what happens to people not "supporting" the system.
alberts leadership wasn't supported by agreement but by fear. Same during the whole war really. Saying "No" to the recruitment officer wasn't an option. Instead of being shot on the battlefield, you would had been shot right at the spot your standing.
You can easily assume that way more than 50% of the German population didn't support albert during the years of war. Only the hard-liner were Näzis, the common guy on the street was just trying to stay alive somehow, trying to stay hidden in the masses.
And about the Holocaust? Well, nobody really knows how much the common folks knew about what happened to the Jews. My personal guess is that most knew about them being carried of to death. I doubt though that they actually knew how it was done...
Any more questions while I am at it?
Edit:
Germany was weak by the end of WW1. Hit.ler made it look strong and took advantage of the germans hate for the rest of Europe for pinning the blame of WW1 entirely on them. [...]
Not true. Who the hell teaches you those things.
At the end of WW1 everyone was disappointed but they were glad it was over.
There was no hate towards the French or anyone else really. They were glad the war was over and they were trying to get their lifes back.
albert didn't take it that lightly and he found support under former soldiers who came home to be left by their wife, no job and no perspective. The state forgot about its soldiers and made the the "albert phenomenon" possible.