Not Your Sweetie

__From the Reichstag Fire to the World Trade Center: Following Hitler's Road to Fascism

Thom Hartmann writes, "February 27, 2003, was the 70th anniversary of Dutch terrorist
Marinus van der Lubbe's successful firebombing of the German Parliament (Reichstag) building,
the terrorist act that catapulted Hitler to legitimacy and reshaped the German constitution.
By the time of his successful and brief action to seize Austria, in which almost no German
blood was shed, Hitler was the most beloved and popular leader in the history of his nation.
Hailed around the world, he was later Time magazine's 'Man Of The Year.' Most Americans
remember his office for the security of the homeland... simply [as] the SS. We also remember
that the Germans developed a new form of highly violent warfare they named 'lightning war' or
blitzkrieg, which, while generating devastating civilian losses, also produced a highly desirable
'shock and awe' among the nation's leadership according to the authors of the 1996 book
'Shock And Awe' published by the National Defense University Press."